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Author: c | 2025-04-25

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To perform your offline update routine a bit differently than if your environment allows you to remove files from the offline network.BatchPatch methods for offline updatingWhen it comes to offline updates with BatchPatch, there are two primary ways to accomplish this:–Method 1 involves using BatchPatch to check your target computers to see which updates they need. Then take BatchPatch, along with a single file that BatchPatch produced, which lists out the needed updates, and run BatchPatch on an internet-connected computer to obtain all of the needed updates. Then bring the update files and BatchPatch back to the offline network to distribute the updates to offline target computers. –Method 2 skips the first part and never checks which updates are needed by target computers. In this way, no list of available/needed update files has to be taken from the offline network. Instead, you simply run BatchPatch on an internet-connected computer to download *all* possible updates. Then take this update cache to the offline network where you use BatchPatch to distribute only the needed updates.At the following link we carefully describe the 5 possible ways to use BatchPatch for online and offline update situations. Complete tutorials are included too. If you are using BatchPatch for offline updates, then check out ‘scenario 4’ and ‘scenario 5’ here: Cached Mode And Offline Windows Update This entry was posted in Blog, General and tagged offline updates. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

BATCHPATCH Relaxation Clarity Gummies, BATCHPATCH

Unfortunately there are cases where remotely removing an update from numerous computers can prove to be more challenging than it seems like it ought to be, especially when you have a great tool like BatchPatch at your disposal. BatchPatch has a built-in feature Actions > Windows updates > Uninstall individual update (requires KB ID) – Windows 10/2016 for uninstalling individual updates from Windows 10 and Windows 2016 target computers, but it is not always successful. Today I’m going to describe why it doesn’t work 100% of the time, and I’m going to show you how you can complete the task of removing an update from multiple Windows 10 or Windows 2016 computers, using BatchPatch, when the BatchPatch built-in feature for this purpose fails. For the sake of this tutorial we are going to remove KB4487006 from a single Windows 2016 computer in our lab, but of course you can use this same method to remove an update from numerous remote computers, simultaneously, simply by selecting multiple computers in your BatchPatch grid when you execute the action.Demonstrating the failure to remove an update using the built-in option in BatchPatch:First let’s try to remove the update using the built-in function in BatchPatch. I know in advance that it will fail, but I want to show you what the failure looks like. I’m going to select Actions > Windows updates > Uninstall individual update (requires KB ID) – Windows 10/2016, and then I’ll enter the KB ID into the form that is presented before clicking OK. The screenshots below illustrate this process.In the screenshot below you can see that the command took only 15 seconds to run before returning ‘Exit Code: 1’. Not surprisingly, it’s also the case that the update was not actually removed from the target computer.Why the built-in removal method did not work:The first question we need to answer is why was the update not removed? Here is a copy of the actual command that BatchPatch executed on the target computer:powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command "$SearchUpdates = dism /online /get-packages | findstr 'Package_for'; $updates = $SearchUpdates.replace('Package Identity : ', '') |

Using BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Does Not

Concern for exactly when those reboots occur, and perhaps also the number of computers involved is not all that high. In these cases, the administrator can develop processes that rely on automation while sacrificing precision, control, and real-time monitoring, and so WSUS and group policy alone might be sufficient in these cases. But for the rest of us who need to control precisely when our machines download and install updates or precisely when our machines reboot, and we need to monitor to make sure they are back online by a certain time and that various services are up and running after the machines are online, that’s where third party patching applications like BatchPatch come in to play. And for those of us who like to automate while still maintaining a high degree of precision and control over the whole process, BatchPatch has more advanced features like the ‘Job Queue‘ and the ‘Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence‘ that can be used in conjunction with the ‘Task Scheduler‘ for all of your automation desires. This entry was posted in Blog, General, Tutorials and tagged automated reboot, patch automation, windows update. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.. BatchPatch BatchPatch File Menu BatchPatch Actions Menu BatchPatch Multiple Tabs BatchPatch Job Queue BatchPatch Deployments BatchPatch Get Information BatchPatch

Wake On LAN with BatchPatch

Scott | Published: May 21, 2018 Removing Firefox from numerous computers does not have to be a tedious process. While you could certainly use remote desktop to connect to each target computer and then manually launch the add/remove programs applet, this would take a very long time if you had to perform the task on dozens or perhaps hundreds or even thousands of computers. Alternatively you could just use BatchPatch to perform this task on all of your remote computers at the same time, enabling you to effectively uninstall Firefox from your entire network of computers in under a minute. The process if very straightforward and simple.First you’ll just need to identify the installation directory on your computers. For example, on my lab computers Firefox is installed in either “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox” or “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox”. If your computers have Firefox installed in a different directory then just make sure you substitute your installation directory in the command instead of using the one in my command.In order to remove Firefox from numerous computers using BatchPatch, we first have to be able to successfully uninstall it from a single computer at the command prompt with no user interaction. We need the process to execute “silently” or “quietly” so that it simply runs to completion without needing any additional interaction from the user or administrator to complete the process. We don’t want a situation where we have to click “yes” or confirm in some other way to proceed with the uninstallation. We just want the process to run on its own after we launch it. So first to confirm that we are able to successfully remove the software from just one computer using the command prompt rather than BatchPatch, we execute the following command in a cmd.exe window.The x64 version of Firefox default setup uninstall command:"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" /SThe x86 version of Firefox default uninstall command:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" /SRun the command and make sure that it successfully removes Firefox. If the command does not successfully remove Firefox on your computer at the command prompt, then there’s no way that BatchPatch will be able to remotely execute the same command with success. However, the command should work for you just as it did for me to completely remove Firefox. Once confirmed, we can then run the same command in BatchPatch to target numerous remote computers, simultaneously.We highlight the desired target computers in our BatchPatch grid and then select ‘Actions > Execute remote process/command > Create/modify remote command 1’In the command window you may insert the removal command just as I have done here:Click ‘Execute’ to launch the command on all of the selected/highlighted hosts in the BatchPatch grid. In my lab

Running BatchPatch as a Service

Below.At this point you probably already resolved the issue, but if for some reason you are still having the same problem, and if you are not able to find one of the checkboxes shown in the screenshots above, another thing you should try is logging on to the computer with the same user account that you are using to launch BatchPatch. So in this case if you were logged on as UserA but you were using run-as to launch BatchPatch as UserB, try logging out as UserA and then log back on as UserB. Then launch BatchPatch (without using run-as), which will automatically run in the context of UserB. See if the warning prompt now appears. If not, try right-clicking on the PsExec.exe file and selecting ‘Properties’ from the menu now to see if you can find the security warning as noted in the above screenshot. This entry was posted in Blog, General, Tutorials and tagged attempting to initiate, initiating execution, open file security warning, stuck, windows update. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

Using BatchPatch In ‘Offline Mode’ When BatchPatch Has Internet Access

Scott | Published: May 21, 2019 This posting is for you if you can’t seem to get any Windows Update, Remote Process, or Deployment actions to work in BatchPatch, and instead they all seem to just hang, indefinitely, on ‘Windows Update: Attempting to initiate Windows Update‘ or ‘Deployment: Initiating execution…‘, depending on the particular action that is being executed.To confirm whether or not you are experiencing the particular issue that I’m describing in this posting: try to execute ‘Actions > Windows updates > Check for available updates‘ on a couple of target computers. If multiple target computers all get stuck on the same ‘Attempting to initiate Windows Update‘ message, you might be experiencing this issue.Why is this happening?In this particular case, the issue is that BatchPatch is launching PsExec.exe, but PsExec.exe is actually getting blocked from execution by Windows. When Windows does this it normally would pop up a dialog window of some kind notifying you that the application was downloaded from the internet and might be unsafe. It prompts you to check or uncheck a box and then click OK to proceed with execution. Normally if this happens the box only needs to be checked/unchecked once, and then the operating system stores the decision so that in the future when PsExec.exe is launched, there is no warning prompt. The problem occurs when the dialog that is being displayed by Windows cannot be seen or has been inadvertently closed or hidden by the user. One way this can happen is if you are logged on to the BatchPatch computer as UserA, but you launch BatchPatch using run-as UserB, and then when the popup is created by Windows, it is created in the context of UserB and not visible to the user who is currently logged on as UserA.How to resolve getting stuck indefinitely on ‘Attempting to initiate Windows Update’We are aware of just two ways that the operating system might present this issue, depending on which version of Windows is being used. If you see Windows popup a warning dialog, it might look like this screenshot, but of course it would reference the location of PsExec.exe on your computer, not File.exe like is shown in the screenshot:If this occurs, simply UNcheck the box that says “Always ask before opening this file,” and then click ‘Run’. After doing that just one time, the issue should be resolved. However, if you do not see the above warning appear, then you should try right-clicking on the PsExec.exe file and clicking ‘Properties’ to view the PsExec.exe properties dialog. On the ‘General’ tab, if the file is being blocked from execution by Windows you might see a security note at the bottom of the properties window that says “This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.” You are given a checkbox to ‘Unblock’ the file. Click on the ‘Unblock’ checkbox and then click OK. You can see what this security warning and checkbox look like in the screenshot. BatchPatch BatchPatch File Menu BatchPatch Actions Menu BatchPatch Multiple Tabs BatchPatch Job Queue BatchPatch Deployments BatchPatch Get Information BatchPatch