Category Archives: Blog

Understanding the ‘Local Downloader’ in BatchPatch ‘Cached Mode’ and ‘Offline Mode’

By Scott | Published: August 30, 2017

One of the questions we receive sometimes is about the local downloader. While using BatchPatch ‘cached mode’ and/or ‘offline mode’ to download and install Windows updates on target computers, it can appear sometimes that everything is queued unnecessarily. One row will be executing the local downloader while other rows sit in a queued state, apparently […]

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Remotely Upgrading Windows 10 to the ‘Creators Update’ version 1703 (or to the ‘Anniversary Update’ version 1607)

By Scott | Published: August 16, 2017

At the time of this writing Microsoft does not currently enable/allow remote silent deployment of Windows 10 feature upgrades (like the ‘Anniversary Update’ version 1607 or the ‘Creators Update’ version 1703) through the normal channel that BatchPatch uses to apply Windows updates. It’s true that if you use the normal Windows Update control panel interface […]

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Automate Windows Update Installations for Multiple Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: August 11, 2017

One of the common reasons that IT administrators use BatchPatch is to help automate processes, which in turn leads to less time spent dealing with patch management. As any patching administrator has seen before, there are times when installing Windows updates on a computer and then rebooting the computer seems to only lead to more […]

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Windows Patch Management Made Easy

By Scott | Published: August 3, 2017

We’re biased, of course, but we really do believe that you’re not going to find a better value than BatchPatch when it comes to patch management applications for Windows. With BatchPatch you get a very streamlined application without the clunkiness that so many modern software packages deliver… you get a lot of features and functionality […]

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Batch Install Windows Updates

By Scott | Published: July 25, 2017

No doubt you have arrived here because you need or want to install Windows Updates on a batch of computers, and you want to do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. You’ve come to the right place. After all, we didn’t name the software ‘BatchPatch’ for no reason! BatchPatch enables the administrator to perform […]

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BatchPatch Audit Logging

By Scott | Published: July 14, 2017

Yesterday we published a new build of BatchPatch that includes a new ‘Audit Logging’ feature. The purpose of this new Audit Logging feature is to help with keeping track of who has executed actions on target computers, and which actions they have executed. To provide access to this new feature there is now a new […]

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Windows Patch Automation

By Scott | Published: July 6, 2017

We regularly receive questions from IT administrators who desire to have more control over their patch management processes as well as better automation for their patching systems. One of the phrases that we have begun to hear more and more frequently is “patch fatigue” and how it’s affecting so many organizations all over the world. […]

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Using BatchPatch to Modify Local Group Membership on Multiple Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: June 27, 2017

Today I’m going to demonstrate how to use BatchPatch to perform a routine task that administrators have to complete periodically, which is to edit the group membership of a particular local group on multiple computers. The cool thing with BatchPatch is that you can do all of the computers in a single shot. To perform […]

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Remote Windows Update Script

By Scott | Published: June 14, 2017

Many sysadmins love to write scripts to solve the problems that exist in their environments. This is something we understand very well. 🙂 If you’re reading this right now then one major problem that you probably face is having to regularly ensure that your computers are completely up to date. However, some problems either aren’t […]

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An Alternate Way to Check if Computers Have a Particular Windows Update Installed

By Scott | Published: June 7, 2017

BatchPatch provides a way for you to generate an update history report for all of your computers to see which computers have installed or have not installed particular updates. There is a tutorial that illustrates this method for update history reporting here: Create a Consolidated Report of Windows Update History However, there is another way […]

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