Category Archives: Tutorials

How to Block the Windows 10 Upgrade

By Scott | Published: April 4, 2016

As most of already know, Microsoft has been pushing hard in the past few months to get Windows 10 installed on machines that are currently running Windows 7 and 8/8.1. We have received numerous emails from customers asking us how to prevent their computers from installing Windows 10 when using BatchPatch to apply Windows updates. […]

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Remotely Deploy EMET 5.5 to Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: March 28, 2016

If you need to deploy EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) to one or more computers on your network, you may follow the instructions below. Download the EMET 5.5 .MSI installer file from Microsoft. At the time of this writing, it’s available from the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50766. I’ve saved the .MSI file to E:\Temp\EMET\EMET setup.msi In […]

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Offline Windows Update

By Scott | Published: March 21, 2016

Today I’d like to take a few minutes to go over the offline Windows Update capabilities that are built in to BatchPatch. One of the common problems that sysadmins have, particularly on secured networks, is getting their Windows systems updated without having access to the internet or a WSUS server (Windows Server Update Services). In […]

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Filter Which Available Updates Are Included Or Excluded When Downloading Or Installing Windows Updates

By Scott | Published: March 8, 2016

In the most recent release of BatchPatch (20160304) we added some new functionality for selecting individual updates to be downloaded / installed on target computers. In addition to the previously available textual filter list option, there is now also a graphical checkbox list available to make it easier to select the updates you want to […]

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Remotely Update Adobe Reader on Many Computers Simultaneously

By Scott | Published: March 1, 2016

Recently I published a tutorial on how to remotely deploy Adobe Reader to numerous computers. Today I’d like to do a follow-up tutorial that illustrates how to remotely update your existing Adobe Reader installations. This tutorial assumes you have Adobe Reader 11.0 installed on target computers. If you do not already have Adobe Reader installed, […]

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Remotely Install OpenType (.otf) or TrueType (.ttf) Fonts

By Scott | Published: February 22, 2016

A customer recently asked how he can use BatchPatch to deploy .otf and .ttf font files to remote computers. It’s a pretty simple and straightforward process. Below I’ll go through the steps. Create a folder on your computer, and then place all of your .otf and .ttf font files in it. Also create a new […]

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Uninstall Windows Updates Remotely

By Scott | Published: February 4, 2016

It seems like in the past year or so there has been a pretty significant need to remotely uninstall Windows Updates after discovering that a particular update has caused a problem in one’s environment. Unfortunately it’s often the case that even after testing updates in a lab environment, upon final deployment to production there are […]

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Remotely Deploy Google Chrome to Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: January 27, 2016

I’ve posted a handful of deployment tutorials in recent months, but I’ve never demonstrated how to remotely install one of the most popular web browsers — Google Chrome. Today I’ll show you how to use BatchPatch to deploy Chrome to many remote computers in just a few clicks. When performing software deployments, I like to […]

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Using BatchPatch as a WSUS Alternative

By Scott | Published: January 14, 2016

One of the questions we regularly receive from users is “What is the best way to use BatchPatch as an alternative to WSUS?” Even though WSUS is free, lightweight, and relatively easy to install and manage, there are certainly cases where administrators don’t already have it and don’t want to deal with installing or managing […]

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Uninstall Skype Remotely

By Scott | Published: January 7, 2016

We are going to uninstall Skype remotely in almost exactly the same way that we installed Skype remotely. Obtain the .msi installer package from http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-msi. In BatchPatch select ‘Actions > Deploy > Create/modify deployment.’ Then choose the deployment options just like my screenshot below. Notice that I have selected the path to the .msi installer, […]

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