Feature Request

[Jeff]

I really appreciate your application but would like to request a feature. I would like to be able to select all machines from the batchpatch console and execute a “config windows update sevice to automatic” and force a start of the service. For whatever reason, users think i’ll skip patching their machine if the service isn’t running.

[doug]

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll consider hardcoding this into a future build. In the meantime you can still accomplish this in BatchPatch by hardcoding your own commands in the “user-defined” commands section (see Actions > Remote Process > Create/modify user-defined commands).

You would want to create the following two commands:

WMIC SERVICE where (DisplayName='Windows Update') CALL ChangeStartMode Automatic

WMIC SERVICE where caption='Windows Update' CALL startservice

-Doug

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