Author Archives: Scott

What To Do When PsExec Is Blocked By Your Anti-Virus Software

By Scott | Published: November 15, 2018

First, let me just say that PsExec is *NOT* malware and it’s *NOT* a virus. It’s simply a very useful tool, particularly for systems administrators. However, because of the fact that it is so useful to sysadmins, it also happens to be useful to hackers. Some of the major anti-virus software vendors have at one […]

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Configure Each Host to Send a Separate Email Notification Upon Completion of Patching

By Scott | Published: November 5, 2018

I’ve previously written about configuring email notifications in BatchPatch. You can find those postings here and here. However, today I’d like to focus on an aspect of email notifications that I have not yet discussed in much detail. Today the focus is going to be on the situation where you need or want to have […]

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Using a Row Template to Automatically Apply Tasks to New Rows in a BatchPatch Grid

By Scott | Published: October 24, 2018

I think the ‘Row Template Configurator’ falls into the category of features that most people probably are not even aware of but would use if they knew it existed. This feature was published just a couple months ago. If you haven’t yet checked it out, now might be a good time to familiarize yourself with […]

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Moving BatchPatch Saved Job Queues, Deployments, Remote Commands, and Other Saved Items to a New Server

By Scott | Published: October 18, 2018

This is a simple topic that barely warrants a whole blog posting, but I wanted to put it out there so that people can find it more easily. When you want to share your saved configurations in BatchPatch with a different BatchPatch user at your organization, or when you want or need to move your […]

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Copy a File to All User Profile Directories on Target Computers

By Scott | Published: October 8, 2018

We recently received a request for help with using BatchPatch to copy a Microsoft Outlook signature file to the appropriate user profile directory on numerous target computers. BatchPatch already has a built-in function for copying files from the BatchPatch computer to a specified directory on target computers, but a problem arises when trying to copy […]

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Pushing Windows Updates to Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: September 25, 2018

BatchPatch provides multiple different options for applying Windows Updates to numerous target computers simultaneously. In all cases the process involves loading a list of computer names or IP addresses into a BatchPatch grid, selecting/highlighting the desired target computers in the grid, and then choosing an action from the BatchPatch Actions menu to execute on the […]

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Appending DNS Suffixes to the Network Interface Instead of to Each Host in the BatchPatch Grid

By Scott | Published: September 17, 2018

In BatchPatch most users enter each host name into the grid without using the entire fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address. In general, for most situations entering just the host names will be sufficient. However, many users have more complex network environments, and sometimes it won’t be sufficient to enter just the unqualified […]

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Automatically Apply Scheduled Tasks, Job Queues, Deployments, and Commands to New Rows with the Row Template Configurator

By Scott | Published: September 4, 2018

In the August 2018 release of BatchPatch, one of the new features that we added is the ‘Row Template Configurator’, which is available under ‘Grid > Row template configurator’. When you add new rows to a grid, sometimes it might be helpful to have the new rows be automatically configured with certain values such as […]

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Windows Update Management Tools

By Scott | Published: August 30, 2018

When it comes to performing Windows updates on an entire network of computers, there are a number of things that frequently need to be addressed, depending on the size of the environment, the number of actual target systems, the service-level agreements in place, the length and frequency of the maintenance windows, and so on. When […]

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Deploying Windows Updates and Third Party Software Updates Quickly and Easily to Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: August 20, 2018

OK, so you have a lot of computers on your network, and you need a way to quickly install Windows Updates and/or 3rd party software updates on all computers without having to connect to each computer individually to initiate and monitor the install. BatchPatch to the rescue! If you haven’t already done so, I would […]

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