Category Archives: Tutorials

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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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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