BatchPatch August 2013 – New Release
News! I’m excited to announce that we’re in the final stages of testing for the new release of BatchPatch, expected to “drop” in August. We’ve got all sorts of new features lined up plus lots of other...
View ArticleNew BatchPatch Administrator’s Guide
New PDF administrator’s guide. You can download it here: Download: BatchPatch_Admin_Guide
View ArticleBatchPatch – New Features Released Fourth Quarter 2013
Hey everyone – I just wanted to take a few minutes to blog about some of the new features that we’ve added to BatchPatch over the past several months. We’ve been able to get a lot of good functionality...
View ArticleSilently Deploy EXEs and MSIs to Computers on Your Network
BatchPatch makes it very simple to deploy not only Windows Updates but also software, scripts, registry keys, MSIs, EXEs… you name it. Today we’re going to be discussing how to deploy software to...
View ArticleBatchPatch – New Features – 2014-02-13
Hey folks! – We published a new build earlier today, and I would like to take a moment to share with you some of the new features. Read remote event log entries It’s now super-easy and convenient to...
View ArticleDeploy Software Remotely to Many Computers
This video demonstrates how to deploy software to multiple computers quickly and easily. It only takes a few clicks and a few seconds. In this instance we push install Notepad++ to 5 computers on our...
View ArticleDeploy Registry Keys to Multiple Computers Using BatchPatch
A systems administrator frequently needs to update the Windows Registry of every computer on his/her network. Did you know that you can use BatchPatch to accomplish this task extremely rapidly?...
View ArticleDeploy Registry Keys to Many Computers – Video Demo
Registry key deployment to numerous remote computers using BatchPatch – Video Demo:
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch to Start and Stop Windows Services on Multiple Computers
Did you know that BatchPatch provides functionality to control Windows services on remote computers? For example, maybe you want to remotely reboot a large number of computers, but after they come...
View ArticleDeploying Windows Service Packs to Many Computers using BatchPatch
Did you know that you can deploy Windows Service Packs with BatchPatch? It’s actually very simple, just like deploying software or patches. BatchPatch gives you a simple way to push a service pack...
View ArticleDeploy Java to Multiple Computers
Despite the fact that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) has continued to be the source of repeated security vulnerabilities both in corporate environments as well as on home computers, we know that...
View ArticleRemoving Adobe Shockwave from Multiple Computers
From time to time we get asked how to use BatchPatch to uninstall Adobe Shockwave from a group of computers. The good news is that it’s relatively simple and straightforward. The first thing we need to...
View ArticleHow To Send Email Notifications In BatchPatch
We confess… The BatchPatch email notifications feature is not the most intuitive aspect of BatchPatch. However, it’s actually very simple to use, and my goal with this posting is to illustrate how to...
View ArticleHow to Hard-Code Your Own Custom Commands in the BatchPatch Actions Menu
We have done our best to make sure that all of the typical commands a Systems Administrator might need to run on computers in his/her network have been included in BatchPatch, so that it’s very easy to...
View ArticleBatchPatch Authentication in Domain and Workgroup (non-domain) Environments
When we set out to create BatchPatch, one of our primary concerns was to ensure that the software would be as easy to use as possible. We believe we were successful in that endeavor. However, since...
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch to Execute a Custom Script to Retrieve the Count of CPU...
One of the cool things about BatchPatch is that you can use it with your own scripts to retrieve information from many target computers. For the sake of this blog posting, let’s look at an example...
View ArticleBatchPatch May 2014 – New Build Released
Hey everyone! I’m happy to announce that we just published a new build. Listed below are some of the new features: Host Status Audio and Email Alerts BatchPatch will now produce optional audible alerts...
View ArticleGetting Started with BatchPatch
If you just downloaded BatchPatch for the first time, let’s go through the things that you need to have in place for the software to function properly. PsExec: Download PsExec from Microsoft PsExec...
View ArticlePsExec v2.1 – All Network Communication Is Now Encrypted
Hey Everyone – I just wanted to take a moment to announce to anyone who hasn’t already heard that PsExec, starting with version 2.1, which was released on March 7, 2014, now encrypts all communication...
View ArticleRemotely Install Windows Updates – A Guide To Updating Your Computers Remotely
It’s not necessarily as straightforward as it seems like it might be to remotely install Windows updates. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) provides a significant amount of help with this process,...
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