goodbye wuauclt hello uso client

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We have no plans to remove the wuauclt.exe commands in the near future because we still have many users who use those commands for their older operating systems.

We talk about usoclient for Windows 10/2016/2019 in this blog posting from Nov 2017.

We have a built-in usoclient command under ‘Actions > Windows updates > usoclient.exe startscan‘. This is the only usoclient.exe command that we have found to have any real value, as of yet, so it’s the only one that we have included. You are certainly welcomed to add your own additional ones. And if you think that any other usoclient commands are useful/valuable, we’d love to hear how and why, so please feel free to explain. It’s certainly possible that you know something that we don’t, and we make adjustments to the software all the time based on customer feedback.

However, we also make BatchPatch customizable so that it can be tweaked by the end-user because not all users have the same needs and desires, obviously. If you think there is a particular command that is not currently included out-of-box but should be included, let us know. If we think it’s a command that many users would find valuable, then we will add it. If not, then you can simply add it to your own BP installation.

You can hard-code your own remote commands as explained at the following link. Once you have added a command, it appears in the BatchPatch menu just like out-of-the-box commands do, so you don’t need to add it every time you launch the app: How to Hard-Code Your Own Custom Commands in the BatchPatch Actions Menu

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