Category Archives: Tutorials

Remotely Deploy a Standalone .MSU Update to Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: January 8, 2015

You need to install a single .MSU update on many computers, but you don’t want to log on to each computer to initiate a manual installation, and you don’t want to deal with writing a script. I know how you feel. I’ve been there many times. The good news is that with BatchPatch you can […]

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Determine if a Particular Windows Update is Installed on Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: December 29, 2014

Windows administrators periodically need to check their systems to determine if a particular update has been installed. BatchPatch provides a simple way to scan for previously installed Windows Updates on numerous remote computers. You can use this facility to generate a consolidated report of the computers that have a particular update installed, or you can […]

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Remotely Installing .NET 4.5.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2

By Scott | Published: December 8, 2014

This is an example of using BatchPatch to install .NET 4.5.1 remotely on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 computers. Overview: The process is very straightforward. Add the target hosts to your BatchPatch grid, create the BatchPatch deployment, and then finally execute the deployment. It’s important to always test a new deployment on a single machine […]

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Troubleshooting Common Errors in BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: November 27, 2014

When BatchPatch was designed one of the fundamental tenets was to keep it as simple as possible while also being extremely functional and effective. It was and still is very important to us to make sure that BatchPatch is easy and intuitive to use. That said, as much as we’d like for there to never […]

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Using ‘Offline Mode’ to Install Windows Updates on Computers That Do Not Have Internet Access or WSUS Access – Video Tutorial

By Scott | Published: November 17, 2014

This video demonstrates the process for installing Windows Updates to an entire network of computers when that network is completely segregated with no internet access and no WSUS access. Note, there are multiple ways to utilize ‘offline mode’ and this video demonstrates only one method. All methods are described in more detail, with tutorials, here: […]

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Importing Notes or MAC Addresses into BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: November 3, 2014

Generally speaking there usually isn’t a need to import MAC addresses into BatchPatch because you can use Actions > Get Information > Get MAC address to retrieve the MAC addresses for hosts that are in the grid. However, there are still times where you might need or want to import MAC addresses. For example, maybe […]

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Remotely Deploy Windows Updates To Computers With No Internet Access

By Scott | Published: October 21, 2014

We recently added two new features to BatchPatch: Cached Mode and Offline Mode. The use of these two features together enables administrators to deploy windows updates to remote computers when the computers do not have internet access. For those of you who are working with highly secure networks that are completely detached from the world, […]

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Getting The Most Out Of BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: October 16, 2014

We’ve been doing our best to get new features and functionality added to BatchPatch as quickly as possible, and there’s still a lot more to come. However, today I wanted to take some time to discuss how to get the most out of what’s currently available. Below are some tips for general BatchPatch usage to […]

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Using BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Does *Not* Have Internet Access

By Scott | Published: September 26, 2014

When cached mode is enabled, the computer that is running BatchPatch will download updates for all target computers directly to its local cache directory. Target computers will not individually download their own updates from Microsoft or a WSUS. Instead BatchPatch will distribute updates to target computers from its cache. Cached mode can also be used […]

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Using BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Has Internet Access

By Scott | Published: September 24, 2014

When cached mode is enabled, the computer that is running BatchPatch will download updates for all target computers directly to its local cache directory. Target computers will not individually download their own updates from Microsoft or a WSUS. Instead BatchPatch will distribute updates to target computers from its cache. The advantage of cached mode in […]

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