Category Archives: General

Copying files or folders to numerous computers using BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: August 11, 2015

BatchPatch provides the administrator with the ability to easily copy files and/or folders to numerous computers, simultaneously. If you simply need to push a file to target computers or you need to replace a file that already exists on target computers, here’s how to do it: Select the target hosts that you want to copy […]

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Checking for Stopped Automatic Services with Exclusions

By Scott | Published: July 29, 2015

In the most recent release of BatchPatch we added a simple but very useful little feature to assist with reporting on stopped automatic services on a large number of target computers. As sysadmins, we know that after rebooting a large number of computers, it’s extremely useful to be able to confirm that the services that […]

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Running BatchPatch as a Service

By Scott | Published: July 21, 2015

In the latest release of BatchPatch we added functionality to run BatchPatch as a service, enabling you to execute scheduled tasks even when no one is logged on to the BatchPatch computer. Go to Tools > Run BatchPatch as a service to reveal the run-as-service settings window. The installation of the service requires BatchPatch to […]

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Enabling Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update on Target Computers with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: July 13, 2015

The distinction between ‘Windows Update’ and ‘Microsoft Update’ has caused a significant amount of confusion for people over the years, so I’d like to take a moment to clarify the difference, as well as to explain how you can configure your target computers to use one or the other with BatchPatch. First note that if […]

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Executing PowerShell Scripts and Commands (cmdlets) on Remote Computers with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: July 2, 2015

Executing PowerShell commands and scripts remotely can be a bit tricky. BatchPatch currently has direct support for deploying PowerShell scripts to target computers, and we will be adding more PowerShell functionality in the not-too-distant future. However, today I’d like to take a few minutes to go over the current options you have for executing PowerShell […]

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Advanced Script Integration with BatchPatch – Part 2

By Scott | Published: June 24, 2015

BatchPatch currently provides functionality for retrieving from target computers the list of services that are set to ‘automatic’ but currently in the ‘stopped’ state. The reason this is valuable/convenient for most users is because after you reboot computers you frequently want to have a quick way to determine that all of the services that should […]

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Using BatchPatch with an Enterprise Web Proxy

By Scott | Published: June 15, 2015

If your environment forces computers to make http connections through a corporate proxy of some kind, usually BatchPatch will work properly with no additional configuration. This is because in most environments where an outbound web proxy is already configured and running, the target systems will also already have been configured with all of the settings […]

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Understanding and Discovering the Silent Parameters Required to Remotely Deploy Software with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: June 3, 2015

One of the most common problems that people encounter with BatchPatch, and consequently one of the most common support questions we receive, has to do with remotely deploying software. A remote software deployment that is executed in BatchPatch without specifying the proper silent/quiet installation parameter/switch, will either fail altogether or in most cases will simply […]

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Configuring Ping Status Alerts in BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: May 27, 2015

You probably didn’t know that you can use BatchPatch to notify you when a host goes offline or comes online. BatchPatch can be configured to only produce an audible alert, or it can be configured to send an email alert (or both). Maybe you want to deploy software to a particular computer that isn’t currently […]

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Windows Update Installation Filters

By Scott | Published: May 21, 2015

When installing Windows Updates, you have a number of options to select from in order to determine where the updates are retrieved from and which updates are downloaded and installed. Let’s take a moment to go through everything. Start by taking a look at the Windows Update settings screen under Tools > Settings > Windows […]

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