Category Archives: General

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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Create a Consolidated Report of Available Updates for Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: August 25, 2015

Some administrators might need a singular, consolidated report that lists all Windows Updates that are needed by computers in the organization. It would be nice if creating such a report didn’t require any manual work on the part of the administrator. The good news is that with BatchPatch you can create a consolidated report like […]

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How to Remotely Initiate Windows Update on Numerous Computers Simultaneously

By Scott | Published: August 18, 2015

One of BatchPatch’s core features is the ability to remotely initiate the Windows Update search/download/install process on target computers. Not only does it allow you to execute this process on many computers at the same time, but it even lets you monitor the process in real-time so that you can see how far along each […]

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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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