Tag Archives: job queue

Wait for a Remote Process to Finish Running Before Installing Updates

By Scott | Published: March 17, 2025

BatchPatch has a lot of built-in options to facilitate customizing your Windows Update process or your process for updating a third-party application. Today I want to illustrate one way to use BatchPatch to proceed with an update installation only after it confirms that a remote process is no longer running. Maybe your environment has some […]

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Executing an Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence as a Scheduled Task

By Scott | Published: March 20, 2024

If you want to execute an advanced multi-row queue sequence on a specific datetime, you can do it with a scheduled task. Alternatively, you can also execute an advanced multi-row queue sequence from within a job queue. The job queue can also be executed by a scheduled task, if desired. Executing an advanced multi-row queue […]

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BatchPatch Job Queue Branching Based on DateTime or Number of Iterations

By Scott | Published: September 30, 2021

In the most recent release of BatchPatch (August 2021), we added some new special items to the Job Queue that will give you more flexibility in your queues. If this step is executed X time(s), terminate queue If this step is executed X time(s), goto label:Y If this step is executed between DateTimeBEGIN and DateTimeEND, […]

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Including Custom Remote Commands in a Job Queue

By Scott | Published: February 9, 2021

If you want to create a job queue in BatchPatch to execute a multi-step process on target computers, you can do that very easily. Today I’m going to show you how you can add your own custom remote commands or deployments to a job queue. There are many different uses for a job queue in […]

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Using the Task Scheduler to Execute a Custom Job Queue

By Scott | Published: November 19, 2020

Create a custom job queue Let’s start by creating our custom job queue. Select ‘Actions > Job Queue > Create/modify job queue‘ In the Job Queue window, create your desired queue. In this case I have created a queue to execute an update + reboot cycle, indefinitely, until there are no more updates available to […]

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Looping, Branching with Goto:Label in the BatchPatch Job Queue

By Scott | Published: May 21, 2020

The April 2020 release of BatchPatch has some new functionality in the job queue that we’re excited about. People have been asking for a while for more flexibility in the job queues, particularly to be able to create loops and have branching etc. We wanted the functionality to be as simple to use as possible […]

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Using the Job Queue to Clear ‘All Messages’ Before Executing a New Action

By Scott | Published: April 23, 2020

Some of our users launch a fresh instance of BatchPatch each time they use it, and they start with a brand new grid (or a set of grids) each time. They load their hosts and then begin patching. However, some of our users prefer to re-use the same grid file (.bps) over and over and […]

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Using the Job Queue to Execute an Ordered List of Actions on Target Computers

By Scott | Published: February 26, 2020

One of the most commonly used features in BatchPatch is the Job Queue. The Job Queue enables you to execute a series of actions, sequentially, on target hosts. Just about any action that BatchPatch can perform through manual execution can also be added to a job queue. One of the most common reasons people use […]

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Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence – Contingent Operations with Custom Scripts

By Scott | Published: February 16, 2018

Today the goal is to tie together some concepts that I’ve written about in the past in order to demonstrate how you can use the Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence to execute certain actions on some hosts with a contingency that something must be true on another host before the additional hosts begin operations. The Plan […]

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Understanding the ‘Special’ Items in the BatchPatch Job Queue

By Scott | Published: November 27, 2017

The BatchPatch Job Queue has a number of “special” items that you can use to control the behavior of the queue. You can see these options in the screenshots below. Today I’m going to explain each of these special actions.

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