The Best Windows Patch Management Software & WSUS Tools
One of the tasks that BatchPatch can help with is executing remote commands or processes across many computers at the same time. For systems administrators this is a common need, and our goal was to make it extremely easy to perform this task in BatchPatch. This way you can avoid manually writing a script that […]
Let’s say you’re working through a list of computers to install Windows Update or a third-party software product, but only a percentage of the computers are actually online. The reason, of course, is because your organization provides laptops to its employees, but at any given time there are a lot of people who either aren’t […]
We have received numerous requests for the ability to create Windows Update history reports with BatchPatch. I’m happy to announced that the latest build of BatchPatch (2014.07.01) has a new reporting option that enables you to quickly retrieve the entire history of Windows Update actions from target computers. The output is consolidated so that you […]
BatchPatch provides Wake On LAN (WoL) capabilities, which makes it convenient when you need to remotely power-on (wake) computers on your network. Some folks like to use Wake On LAN in conjunction with their routine maintenance for patching / updating their computers. The reason this can work nicely is because once you have Wake On […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]