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Say Goodbye to Remote Desktop for Patch Management

By Scott | Published: January 8, 2020

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 manually install Windows Updates or third party software applications. The process often goes something like this: Sample Manual Update Process ::Maintenance window begins […]

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The Best Windows Patching Software

By Scott | Published: July 16, 2019

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 computers to manage or larger business with hundreds or thousands of machines, you still need a good solution to help keep […]

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The Best Software to Automate Windows Patching

By Scott | Published: March 28, 2019

Systems administrators have quite a few options when it comes to applying Windows updates to the computers that they’re responsible for. In smaller environments with looser requirements it might be totally sufficient to just manually install updates each month by logging on to each computer with Remote Desktop or some type of KVM solution, and […]

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Windows Patch Management Made Easy

By Scott | Published: August 3, 2017

We’re biased, of course, but we really do believe that you’re not going to find a better value than BatchPatch when it comes to patch management applications for Windows. With BatchPatch you get a very streamlined application without the clunkiness that so many modern software packages deliver… you get a lot of features and functionality […]

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Windows Patch Management without WSUS

By Scott | Published: July 25, 2016

To WSUS or not to WSUS, that is the question! A lot of folks simply do not want to invest the time or infrastructure to setup a WSUS server, so today we’re going to talk a bit about how to use BatchPatch for Windows patch management as well as 3rd party patch management *without* using […]

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BatchPatch New Build – 20140908

By Scott | Published: September 8, 2014

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. Also, note that in the next month or so we will be publishing another release with a much more […]

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Remotely Install Only a Subset of Available Windows Updates

By Scott | Published: August 19, 2014

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 BatchPatch we provide a few different ways to accomplish this task. Method 1: View a list of available updates, and then select […]

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BatchPatch – New Features Released Fourth Quarter 2013

By Scott | Published: February 3, 2014

Hey everyone – I just wanted to take a few minutes to blog about some of the new features that we’ve added to BatchPatch over the past several months. We’ve been able to get a lot of good functionality added, and there is still a plenty more to come in the new year. The list […]

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Installing Specific Windows Updates on 20 Remote Computers – BatchPatch Video Demo

By Scott | Published: December 21, 2013
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BatchPatch August 2013 – New Release

By Scott | Published: July 31, 2013

News! I’m excited to announce that we’re in the final stages of testing for the new release of BatchPatch, expected to “drop” in August. We’ve got all sorts of new features lined up plus lots of other little enhancements, as well as bug fixes. Some of the new features are listed below. —————————————————————————————————————————- —————————————————————————————————————————- Tabbed […]

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