Powershell Question

[Matthew Dartez]

Has anyone ever written a script that would invoke batchpatch? Just curious – I want to write a script in powershell that opens batchpatch, adds servers to it and executes certain commands/opens a BPS file/etc.

[doug]

You can programmatically launch a .bps file with a command like this:

batchpatch.exe “C:filesyourFile.bps”

You won’t be able to directly execute commands in BatchPatch from the powershell script, but you can set BP to start with the scheduler enabled (Tools > Settings > Startup options > Enable Task Scheduler on startup), and then it will execute whatever scheduled tasks you have configured in that .bps file.

Alternatively you may run BP as a service to ensure that scheduled tasks in BP execute regardless of whether or not someone is logged on to the computer. (Tools > Run BatchPatch as a service)

-Doug

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