Monthly Archives: February 2018

Deploying Windows Feature Upgrades/Updates Remotely to Multiple Computers

Beginning with BatchPatch version 202004, Windows 10 ‘feature upgrades’ or ‘feature updates’ such as 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, 2004, 20H2, 21H1, 21H2 etc can all be installed with the normal Windows Update actions in BatchPatch (you must disable cached mode and also check the ‘Upgrades’ classification under ‘Tools > Settings > Windows […]

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Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence – Contingent Operations with Custom Scripts

Today the goal is to tie together some concepts that I’ve written about in the past in order to demonstrate how you can use the Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence to execute certain actions on some hosts with a contingency that something must be true on another host before the additional hosts begin operations. The Plan […]

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BatchPatch Custom Script Integration – Install Windows Updates Only After Stopping a Specified Service

Today we’re going to look at another example of how you can integrate a custom script into BatchPatch to create an effect that you could not accomplish with the built-in actions alone. The Goal Using a combination of the Job Queue, a Deployment, and a custom script, instruct the target computer(s) to only install Windows […]

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