Author Archives: Scott

How To Receive Notifications When Computers Go Offline Or Come Online

By Scott | Published: July 28, 2014

Let’s say you’re working through a list of computers to install Windows Update or a third-party software product, but only a percentage of the computers are actually online. The reason, of course, is because your organization provides laptops to its employees, but at any given time there are a lot of people who either aren’t […]

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Hiding Windows Updates Remotely In a Non-WSUS Environment

By Scott | Published: July 14, 2014

If you’re using BatchPatch in an environment that has no WSUS server, there might be times when computers show more available updates than you actually want to install. For example, perhaps you don’t want to install new versions of IE or .NET when you’re installing Windows Updates, but you do want to install updates to […]

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Create a Consolidated Report of Windows Update History

By Scott | Published: July 8, 2014

We have received numerous requests for the ability to create Windows Update history reports with BatchPatch. I’m happy to announced that the latest build of BatchPatch (2014.07.01) has a new reporting option that enables you to quickly retrieve the entire history of Windows Update actions from target computers. The output is consolidated so that you […]

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BatchPatch – New Build Released July 2014

By Scott | Published: July 2, 2014

Hey everyone! We published a new build today, and I wanted to take a moment to share with you some of the updates that have been made. While this build was primarily a bug-fix release, we also included a few features worth noting. In particular, we’ve added some reporting options for Windows Update history, which […]

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BatchPatch Performance Tuning

By Scott | Published: June 23, 2014

Hey everyone! This week I’d like to take some time to talk about getting the most out of BatchPatch from a performance perspective. As you have probably already discovered, BatchPatch is geared toward doing a lot of things at once. One of the most important design elements for us was to figure out a way […]

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Wake On LAN with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: June 9, 2014

BatchPatch provides Wake On LAN (WoL) capabilities, which makes it convenient when you need to remotely power-on (wake) computers on your network. Some folks like to use Wake On LAN in conjunction with their routine maintenance for patching / updating their computers. The reason this can work nicely is because once you have Wake On […]

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Remotely Install Windows Updates – A Guide To Updating Your Computers Remotely

By Scott | Published: May 29, 2014

It’s not necessarily as straightforward as it seems like it might be to remotely install Windows updates. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) provides a significant amount of help with this process, but there are still a number of important considerations to keep in mind. The great news about WSUS is that it’s free to use […]

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PsExec v2.1 – All Network Communication Is Now Encrypted

By Scott | Published: May 19, 2014

Hey Everyone – I just wanted to take a moment to announce to anyone who hasn’t already heard that PsExec, starting with version 2.1, which was released on March 7, 2014, now encrypts all communication between local and remote systems. No more passwords sent in the clear! In previous versions of PsExec, if you specified […]

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Getting Started with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: May 13, 2014

If you just downloaded BatchPatch for the first time, let’s go through the things that you need to have in place for the software to function properly. PsExec: Download PsExec from Microsoft PsExec needs to be placed in the Windows PATH of the computer that is running BatchPatch (target computers do *NOT* need psexec). The […]

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BatchPatch May 2014 – New Build Released

By Scott | Published: May 2, 2014

Hey everyone! I’m happy to announce that we just published a new build. Listed below are some of the new features: Host Status Audio and Email Alerts BatchPatch will now produce optional audible alerts and/or email alerts when hosts go offline or come online. Alerts are only triggered while a host is actively being pinged […]

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