Monthly Archives: May 2019

Using BatchPatch Standalone Without WSUS

By Scott | Published: May 28, 2019

If you are using BatchPatch in a standalone configuration without a WSUS server, there are a few things to be aware of. The first order of business is to configure your environment to work with BatchPatch. Please review the Getting Started page. Make sure that you can successfully run the BatchPatch action ‘Windows updates > […]

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BatchPatch Stuck ‘Attempting to initiate Windows Update’ or ‘Initiating execution…’

By Scott | Published: May 21, 2019

This posting is for you if you can’t seem to get any Windows Update, Remote Process, or Deployment actions to work in BatchPatch, and instead they all seem to just hang, indefinitely, on ‘Windows Update: Attempting to initiate Windows Update‘ or ‘Deployment: Initiating execution…‘, depending on the particular action that is being executed. To confirm […]

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Custom Update And Reboot Sequences for Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: May 9, 2019

Today I’d like to demonstrate how to create a complete update-plus-reboot sequence where a group of computers must be shutdown and started up in a particular order. You might work in an environment where there is at least one group of servers that are not only reliant on each other for various reasons but where […]

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When WSUS and Group Policy (GPO) Are Not Enough

By Scott | Published: May 1, 2019

Does Everyone Need a 3rd-Party Patch Management Solution? A very common statement that you’ll find in discussions on the web about updating Windows computers in a network environment goes something like this: “There is no need to employ a 3rd-party Windows Update management solution because Microsoft provides WSUS and Group Policy objects (GPO) for free.” […]

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