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Paexec seems to work on the remote server, but I keep getting an error with Psexec (windows could not start the psexesvc service on local computer the system cannot find the path specified).
Is there a way for BatchPatch to be configured to use Paexec?
Close all instances of BatchPatch. Then in HKCUSoftwareBatchPatch change the REG_DWORD isPsExec to 0. Then launch BatchPatch. That will work.
Alternatively you can just rename paexec to psexec.
Gene – To be clear, I didn’t make a suggestion. I simply responded to your question about how to use PaExec instead of PsExec in BP.
I don’t know what you mean when you say “I am launching psexec remotely to test a server…” Could you clarify *exactly* what you are doing/testing? PsExec should not ever be launched “remotely” as it needs to run locally on the same machine that is running BatchPatch.
If you have an error with just a single target server, then it’s unclear what might be the issue though it seems specific to that particular server since other servers are working normally/properly. It may have something to do with psexec/paexec, but it might not. However, if you have an error with any/all target servers, then it seems to be an indication that there is a problem with the computer that is running BatchPatch.
At this time I don’t fully understand exactly all of the things that you are trying and experiencing. Is BatchPatch working properly to patch target servers with the exception of the single target computer you are experiencing the error on? The more clearly you can explain in step by step detail of what you are trying and what you are experiencing, the more likely I’ll be able to understand and help.
-Doug
Thanks for the additional info and clarifications. With just one particular server having a problem with psexec, I don’t really have a great solution for you, unfortunately. Every once in a great while we here of a customer with a psxec issue on a single target server, and there never seems to be any rhyme or reason to getting it working again. We have had a couple people who simply updated the psexec version to the latest, and then all of a sudden it started working. We have had a couple people who downgraded the psexec version (usually to v1.98 if you can find it) and then all of a sudden it started working. Using paexec instead of psexec could possibly work too, but possibly not. We have also heard of it spontaneously just starting to work with no apparent changes made. And we have heard of it working from a different source computer where you simply run psexec from a different computer instead of the one that you’re currently using as the source.
With regard to the registry key to change BP to using PaExec instead of PsExec, it definitely does work as we use it all the time for testing. You can ensure it’s working by simply removing any copy of psexec that you have, so you’ll know if psexec is not even on the system, paexec is the one that is being invoked. You can also watch in realtime the processes list in task manager on the BP computer or with other tools or on the target server task manager processes list etc. Additionally, if you for some reason you have problems, you can also simply remove psexec and then take paexec and rename it to psexec, and that will work too from BP.
However, of course if you get paexec being used by BP that won’t guarantee that it will fix your problem, unfortunately.
I hope this helps a bit.
-Doug
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