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The Best Windows Patching Software
When it comes to patching and updating the Windows operating system in a business environment, there are a lot of options to choose from. Regardless of whether you have a smaller business with fewer...
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Single-Click Update Plus Reboot of All Virtual Machine Guests and the VM Host...
It seems that everyone always wants to automate everything these days. Sometimes it almost feels like sysadmins think that their credibility hinges on their ability to automate something. However, in...
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Applying Windows Security Updates to Air-Gapped Systems
BatchPatch provides two basic methods for applying updates to so-called “air-gapped” systems that are isolated from the rest of the world. Patching systems in isolated networks has always been both a...
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Windows Update: Error 1611/1620: -1073741502. Failure
A BatchPatch user recently reported a new error that we had never encountered before. It comes in two flavors, depending on whether the action was executed with integrated security or alternate logon...
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Remote .MSI (or .MSU / .MSP) Package Deployment to Multiple Target Computers
If you have a .MSI package that you need to deploy to numerous computers, it’s very easy to accomplish this with BatchPatch. The great thing is that not only does it only take a moment to create the...
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Clarifying the Confusion Surrounding Optional Updates for “Seekers”
Beginning with Windows 10 and Windows 2019 build 1809, Microsoft began pre-releasing some updates in advance of their formal release date. This has created a fair amount of confusion both for our users...
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How to Convert HRESULT Decimal (DEC) Values to Hexadecimal (HEX)
How to convert HRESULT decimal values to hexadecimal In the Windows operating system, when an exception is generated it is delivered with an HRESULT value. The HRESULT value is essentially a “reason...
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How to Automate Monthly Windows Patching and Updates for Numerous Computers
While it’s true that our favorite way to use BatchPatch is for real-time control of the Windows Update process, it also works great for automating Windows updates and everything that goes along with...
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BatchPatch Host Status “LED” Indicator Image Icons
GREEN – online BLUE – online after reboot (BatchPatch does its best to determine if a host was rebooted by counting the number of ping timeouts that are tracked immediately before a ping success. You...
View ArticleOctober 2019 Version of BatchPatch Released
We released a new version of BatchPatch at the end of last week. Below I’ll explain some of the updates that we made. Added Task Scheduler option to ‘Add/subtract days/hours/minutes to/from next...
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Explanation of ‘Reattach Orphaned Windows Update Process’ Feature
There is a menu item in BatchPatch under ‘Actions > Windows updates > Reattach orphaned Windows Update process‘ that contains the following sub-menu-items: Reattach orphan + do not reboot /...
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Running the Disk Cleanup Tool (cleanmgr.exe) Remotely on Multiple Computers
We recently received a question about how to successfully run the Windows Disk Cleanup Tool remotely using BatchPatch. The user noted that when running cleanmgr.exe in BatchPatch on a target computer,...
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Using BatchPatch in Non-Domain Environments with Standalone or Workgroup...
One of the questions we are asked regularly is can BatchPatch work on computers that are *not* domain members? How does one go about making that happen? The answer is yes, in addition to working in a...
View ArticleA Tool to Automate Offline Windows Updates and Patches
A common issue that a lot of organizations face is how to apply various Windows updates and patches to “offline” computers that do not have internet access. Many companies operate high-security (or at...
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Deploying Windows Feature Update Version 1909 (the ‘November 2019 Update’) to...
To remotely apply Windows 10 feature update 1909 (as well as the other Windows 10 feature updates) to numerous computers using BatchPatch, you should follow the process outlined below. The built-in,...
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Say Goodbye to Remote Desktop for Patch Management
Sometimes I forget just how many systems administrators are still using Remote Desktop to connect individually and manually to each and every computer on their network via Remote Desktop in order to...
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A Utility to Schedule Windows Updates on Numerous Computers
When we first created BatchPatch it was intended to be used primarily as a real-time utility, where an administrator could initiate the download and installation process for Windows Updates on many...
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Automatically Trigger an Email Notification for an Entire Grid Only After All...
There are different ways to utilize email notifications in BatchPatch. For example this link illustrates how to schedule email notifications or include them inside job queues. Additionally we have a...
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Offline Windows Patching for Isolated or Air-Gapped Networks
Applying Windows security updates to a networks that is isolated from or completely air-gapped from the primary network can be a challenge and a pain. At the very least it means that you, the sysadmin,...
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Notify Users of Upcoming Reboot or other Patching Activity
When a systems administrator is performing a maintenance operation on end-user computers, one of the things that can really help significantly is being able to notify any currently logged-on users of...
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