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BatchPatch Stuck Searching for Available Updates on a Windows 8.1 or 2012R2 Target

By Scott | Published: January 13, 2023

This isn’t really a BatchPatch problem per se, but it’s come up a couple of times in the past handful of months, so I want to take a moment to discuss it here today. The issue is that when you have a Windows 8.1 or 2012R2 target computer, the search for available updates seems to […]

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BatchPatch Stuck ‘Attempting to initiate Windows Update’ or ‘Initiating execution…’

By 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 […]

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BatchPatch Service Stuck Starting?

By Scott | Published: January 29, 2019

When you want or need to have BatchPatch execute scheduled tasks even if the BatchPatch computer is not logged-on and/or you have not launched BatchPatch, the BatchPatch ‘run-as-service’ feature enables you to install BatchPatch to run as a service. You can then run any grids in this service instance so that the scheduled tasks defined […]

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