Category Archives: Tutorials

Remotely Install Windows Updates – A Guide To Updating Your Computers Remotely

By Scott | Published: May 29, 2014

It’s not necessarily as straightforward as it seems like it might be to remotely install Windows updates. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) provides a significant amount of help with this process, but there are still a number of important considerations to keep in mind. The great news about WSUS is that it’s free to use […]

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Getting Started with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: May 13, 2014

If you just downloaded BatchPatch for the first time, let’s go through the things that you need to have in place for the software to function properly. PsExec: Download PsExec from Microsoft PsExec needs to be placed in the Windows PATH of the computer that is running BatchPatch (target computers do *NOT* need psexec). The […]

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Using BatchPatch to Execute a Custom Script to Retrieve the Count of CPU Sockets, Cores, and Logical Processors from Remote Computers

By Scott | Published: April 28, 2014

One of the cool things about BatchPatch is that you can use it with your own scripts to retrieve information from many target computers. For the sake of this blog posting, let’s look at an example where an administrator wants to retrieve the count of CPU cores from his/her target machines. Let’s start with the […]

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BatchPatch Authentication in Domain and Workgroup (non-domain) Environments

By Scott | Published: April 16, 2014

When we set out to create BatchPatch, one of our primary concerns was to ensure that the software would be as easy to use as possible. We believe we were successful in that endeavor. However, since every network environment is unique, there are a few things that need to be understood about the BatchPatch authentication […]

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How to Hard-Code Your Own Custom Commands in the BatchPatch Actions Menu

By Scott | Published: April 8, 2014

We have done our best to make sure that all of the typical commands a Systems Administrator might need to run on computers in his/her network have been included in BatchPatch, so that it’s very easy to get information from remote computers with just a couple of clicks. That said, if there is a command […]

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How To Send Email Notifications In BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: March 31, 2014

We confess… The BatchPatch email notifications feature is not the most intuitive aspect of BatchPatch. However, it’s actually very simple to use, and my goal with this posting is to illustrate how to use email notifications in BatchPatch. The original design of BatchPatch was focused on real-time patching, with the idea that any action a […]

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Removing Adobe Shockwave from Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: March 19, 2014

From time to time we get asked how to use BatchPatch to uninstall Adobe Shockwave from a group of computers. The good news is that it’s relatively simple and straightforward. The first thing we need to do is locate the uninstall string in the registry on a computer that has Adobe Shockwave installed. Launch the […]

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Deploy Java to Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: March 10, 2014

We have a more recent tutorial posted here: Remotely Install Java 8 On Numerous Computers Simultaneously The tutorial below utilizes an installation method that appears to no longer be necessary to remotely deploy Java. The new tutorial linked above should be all that is required at this time to perform the deployment. However, if you […]

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Deploying Windows Service Packs to Many Computers using BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: February 28, 2014

Did you know that you can deploy Windows Service Packs with BatchPatch? It’s actually very simple, just like deploying software or patches. BatchPatch gives you a simple way to push a service pack installer file to target computers, execute the service pack installation across all the target machines at the same time, and then reboot […]

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Using BatchPatch to Start and Stop Windows Services on Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: February 26, 2014

Did you know that BatchPatch provides functionality to control Windows services on remote computers? For example, maybe you want to remotely reboot a large number of computers, but after they come online you also want to make sure that all services that are set to automatic are started. Fortunately you can do that pretty easily […]

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