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Protecting Sensitive Passwords in Saved BatchPatch Grid Files (.bps / .bpt)

By Scott | Published: December 1, 2015

In the November 2015 release of BatchPatch one of the cool new features is password protection with 256-bit AES encryption for your saved .bps / .bpt files. What does this mean? The contents of a .bps / .bpt file can be password encrypted such that after you have applied a password to a particular grid, […]

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Remotely Remove a Problematic Windows Update from Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: November 18, 2015

It seems to be happening more and more frequently these days. Microsoft releases a Windows Update that causes some type of problem for users, and even though you are a stellar sysadmin with a solid process in place for testing Windows Updates before deploying them to your general user population, your thorough testing process somehow […]

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Initiating Tasks on Computers that are Frequently Offline

By Scott | Published: November 11, 2015

One of the challenges that administrators often face is getting things done on user computers that rarely connect to the network. For example, part of your job might be to update Java, Adobe Flash, or Adobe Reader on all of your users’ computers. Inevitably it seems that you are able to get 90% done immediately […]

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Install Adobe Reader Remotely to Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: November 3, 2015

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to deploy Adobe Reader to multiple computers on your network, simultaneously, in just a few clicks. After the installation is complete, I will then execute a remote uninstallation. Obtain the Adobe Reader offline installer package. At the time of this writing, the following link contains the offline installer […]

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Uninstall Adobe Flash Player from Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: October 21, 2015

In a previous posting I demonstrated how to install Adobe Flash on numerous computers, simultaneously. In this posting I will demonstrate how to remove (uninstall) Adobe Flash from numerous computers, simultaneously. Obtain the installation media. In this example we’re going to use the .msi installer file for Flash player version 19 for plugin-based browsers that […]

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Remote Software Installation with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: October 12, 2015

Today I’d like to demonstrate a silent remote software installation with BatchPatch. We’ll deploy 7-zip to the computers in our lab. Once deployed, we’ll then go ahead and remotely uninstall it too. Remote Software Installation – Deploying 7-zip to remote computers Select the desired target host(s) in the BatchPatch grid, and then choose ‘Actions > […]

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Configure Computers to Automatically Logon after Reboot

By Scott | Published: October 5, 2015

Windows provides a feature that enables it to automatically logon after reboot, which can sometimes be very handy in certain environments. The configuration is applied through a series of registry values, which isn’t particularly convenient to enable manually. However, BatchPatch provides a quick way to apply the settings to target computers when you want to […]

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Update Date Filtering: Skip Download / Installation of Recently Deployed Updates

By Scott | Published: September 22, 2015

In the most recent release of BatchPatch we added functionality that enables you to easily filter out recently published/approved updates during download and installation. In many environments there is a need or desire to be able to apply updates to computers only if the updates are at least X days old, where X is a […]

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Executing PowerShell Scripts and Commands on Many Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: September 14, 2015

One of the things that BatchPatch does very well is remote script execution on many computers all at the same time. The ability to remotely execute a single script on numerous computers, simultaneously, with just a few clicks, is one of the awesome features of BatchPatch. No administrator wants to repeat a single process over […]

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Using the Job Queue in BatchPatch for Multi-Step Execution

By Scott | Published: September 8, 2015

The ‘Job Queue’ feature lets you line up a sequence of multiple actions to execute on a target host. There are many different situations where you might want to execute a sequence of actions on a given host (or set of hosts). For example, maybe you want to string together multiple software deployments into a […]

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