Wake On LAN with BatchPatch
BatchPatch provides Wake On LAN (WoL) capabilities, which makes it convenient when you need to remotely power-on (wake) computers on your network. Some folks like to use Wake On LAN in conjunction with...
View ArticleBatchPatch Performance Tuning
Hey everyone! This week I’d like to take some time to talk about getting the most out of BatchPatch from a performance perspective. As you have probably already discovered, BatchPatch is geared toward...
View ArticleBatchPatch – New Build Released July 2014
Hey everyone! We published a new build today, and I wanted to take a moment to share with you some of the updates that have been made. While this build was primarily a bug-fix release, we also included...
View ArticleCreate a Consolidated Report of Windows Update History
We have received numerous requests for the ability to create Windows Update history reports with BatchPatch. I’m happy to announced that the latest build of BatchPatch (2014.07.01) has a new reporting...
View ArticleHiding Windows Updates Remotely In a Non-WSUS Environment
If you’re using BatchPatch in an environment that has no WSUS server, there might be times when computers show more available updates than you actually want to install. For example, perhaps you don’t...
View ArticleHow To Receive Notifications When Computers Go Offline Or Come Online
Let’s say you’re working through a list of computers to install Windows Update or a third-party software product, but only a percentage of the computers are actually online. The reason, of course, is...
View ArticleExecuting Remote Commands with BatchPatch
One of the tasks that BatchPatch can help with is executing remote commands or processes across many computers at the same time. For systems administrators this is a common need, and our goal was to...
View ArticleRemotely Install Only a Subset of Available Windows Updates
Sometimes you might need or want to only install a specific handful (or more) of updates on remote computers, rather than installing all of the updates that are available for those computers. With...
View ArticleRemotely Uninstall Windows Updates From Multiple Computers
Over the past couple of weeks there’s been a lot of press about problematic Windows Updates causing stability issues for many users. As such, Microsoft recommends that users uninstall the offending...
View ArticleRemote Script Deployment – Install Multiple .MSU Files in a Single Action on...
One of the common questions we receive is “How does one go about deploying and installing multiple updates to offline computers?” First, we are excited to let you know that we’ve been working on new...
View ArticleBatchPatch New Build – 20140908
Hey guys/gals – I just wanted to inform you of the new build we posted last week. There were a number of minor bug fixes, updates to logging and error reporting, plus a few functionality enhancements....
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch To Remotely Install Windows Updates
This tutorial illustrates how to use BatchPatch in its default configuration to remotely install Windows Updates on your computers. If you prefer a video tutorial, please check out this link: Remotely...
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch in ‘Cached Mode’
When ‘cached mode’ is enabled, the computer that is running BatchPatch will download updates for all target computers directly to its local cache directory. Target computers will not individually...
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Has Internet Access
When ‘cached mode’ is enabled, the computer that is running BatchPatch will download updates for all target computers directly to its local cache directory. Target computers will not individually...
View ArticleUsing BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Does *Not* Have Internet...
When ‘cached mode’ is enabled, the computer that is running BatchPatch will download updates for all target computers directly to its local cache directory. Target computers will not individually...
View ArticleGetting The Most Out Of BatchPatch
We’ve been doing our best to get new features and functionality added to BatchPatch as quickly as possible, and there’s still a lot more to come. However, today I wanted to take some time to discuss...
View ArticleRemotely Deploy Windows Updates To Computers With No Internet Access
We recently added two new features to BatchPatch: Cached Mode and Offline Mode. The use of these two features together enables administrators to deploy windows updates to remote computers when the...
View ArticleImporting Notes or MAC Addresses into BatchPatch
Generally speaking there usually isn’t a need to import MAC addresses into BatchPatch because you can use Actions > Get Information > Get MAC address to retrieve the MAC addresses for hosts that...
View ArticleUsing ‘Offline Mode’ to Install Windows Updates on Computers That Do Not Have...
This video demonstrates the process for installing Windows Updates to an entire network of computers when that network is completely segregated with no internet access and no WSUS access. Using...
View ArticleTroubleshooting common errors in BatchPatch
When BatchPatch was designed one of the fundamental tenets was to keep it as simple as possible while also being extremely functional and effective. It was and still is very important to us to make...
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