Synchronize ALL grids with Active Directory ?

[JustinM]

Hey guys,

First of all, awesome program. My colleagues and I use it pretty heavily looking after a lot of PC’s.

Our issue: We have a lot of different OU’s in AD (around 52) and due to our size we have a lot of PC’s coming in and out of AD every day/week.

Currently we are using 52 different BatchPatch grids, synced with AD OU’s.

But, we need to go to each grid and manually hit CTRL+G, then “Synchronize Now”, then click “OK”, and then move onto the next grid.

This is a slow process.

Currently, I can’t see a way of synchronizing ALL of the open grids with a single button press.

Is it possible to do this through one of the existing functions in BatchPatch?

If not, is it something you guys can add in an update?

We’d like to at least be able to do this once a day to keep our grids up-to-date.

Thanks,

Justin

[doug]

Hi Justin – Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to hear that you like the tool!

There is not currently such a button, but we’ll consider adding one for a future build. In the meantime I would suggest you create a “dummy” row in each grid, and then setup each dummy row with a scheduled task that runs daily to initiate the synchronize operation. Once you have it setup you won’t have to manually synchronize each grid anymore. They’ll all sync on their own at the scheduled time each day. I hope this helps.

-Doug

[JustinM]

Awesome.

I’ve done that.

It’s probably not ideal, as I can’t change the color of that row (it appears like a normal host) and I can’t lock the row to the top or bottom. Also, if I disable the row, it disables the task.

But, I’ve set it up for all 52 grids, and I’ll let that run for now.

I do a lot of sorting in my grids, so it’d be cool if I could hide/pin/disable a row without affecting it’s task. That way I could sort without a dummy row getting in between the real hosts.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Justin

[doug]

You can change the color of rows with ‘Actions > Modify category, description, location, notes, color etc.’

You can’t pin or hide a row. Not sure why you’d want to disable it unless the goal in that case is to color it. However, now you know how to color it without disabling it, so hopefully that gives you what you need.

As for it getting in between real hosts when sorting, you should be able to easily at least force it to be at the top or bottom just by naming it accordingly. So like you could name it zzzzz or aaaaa or ….. or whatever makes sense. Then it won’t get put between other rows when sorting. It will only go to top or bottom.

-Doug

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