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Deploying Office 2024 to Numerous Computers with BatchPatch

By Scott | Published: June 30, 2025

Configuring and Executing an Office 2024 Deployment: Create a new folder that contains your setup.exe and configuration.xml files. The directory should contain no other files other than these two. For this example my folder is called E:\Temp\Office2024 Go to Actions > Deploy > Create/modify deployment… Use the … button to browse to the location of […]

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Remotely Initiating Windows Update on Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: June 11, 2024

One of the primary tasks that BatchPatch facilitates is the application of Windows Updates. BatchPatch enables systems administrators to initiate the Windows Update process remotely on numerous computers at the same time. Let’s take a look at how this is accomplished. Start by adding computers to your BatchPatch grid. To do this you can either […]

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Deploying Windows Defender Antivirus Definition Updates to Offline Computers

By Scott | Published: October 5, 2022

If you need to push Microsoft Windows Defender definition updates to offline computers, here’s how to do it: Download the version of the Microsoft security intelligence file that is appropriate for your target computers’ operating systems. On the following page Microsoft has links to all of the various flavors that this file comes in. At […]

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Remotely Deploying Windows Feature Update Version 21H2 to Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: March 10, 2022

Standard Deployment Method for Windows Feature Update 21H2 (and other feature updates/upgrades such as 22H2 etc) in BatchPatch Unless you are using a version of BatchPatch that was released prior to April 2020, you can usually deploy/install feature updates like 21H2 with the normal Windows Update actions in BatchPatch under ‘Actions > Windows updates‘. However, […]

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Overview for Remotely Deploying Software and Specifying Default Settings

By Scott | Published: February 2, 2022

Today I’m not going to perform a specific deployment. Instead I want to provide a conceptual overview for new users who ask us “How do I remotely install software on multiple computers and configure that software to have specific default settings for the end user?” Similarly, “How do I remotely install software to multiple computers […]

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Deploy Microsoft Edge to Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: January 4, 2022

The process for deploying Microsoft Edge with BatchPatch to numerous computers, simultaneously, is essentially the same as with any standard deployment. In this case we will download the Edge .MSI installer, and then create a BatchPatch deployment, and then execute it against our target computers. The process is illustrated step by step below. Download the […]

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Remotely Deploying Windows Feature Update Version 21H1 to Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: August 10, 2021

Standard Deployment of Windows Feature Update 21H1 (and other feature updates/upgrades) with BatchPatch in Default/NON-Cached Mode Generally speaking, if you are using the April 2020 or newer release of BatchPatch, you can install Windows feature updates with the normal ‘Windows Update’ actions in BatchPatch, when running the application in standard, non-cached, mode. To do so, […]

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Deploying .msi, .msu, and .msp Files Remotely to Numerous Computers

By Scott | Published: September 17, 2020

You can use BatchPatch to deploy virtually any type of file or package to target computers. As Windows systems administrators, we commonly have to work with .msi and .msu files, and occasionally we need to deal .msp files too. If you have a .msi, .msu, or .msp file that you need to install on numerous […]

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Deploying a Registry Key / Value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) – Part 2

By Scott | Published: July 20, 2020

Last year I posted this tutorial about how you can deploy a registry key/value to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) registry hive of target computers. Following those instructions will enable you to place a registry key/value into the registry hive of all users who have logged on to the target computers. However, what if you want to […]

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Running the Disk Cleanup Tool (cleanmgr.exe) Remotely on Multiple Computers

By Scott | Published: November 13, 2019

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, the cleanmgr.exe would stay running indefinitely. This is essentially the same problem that we discuss in numerous places on this website when it comes […]

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