{"id":3226,"date":"2016-09-22T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batchpatch.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2017-03-10T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:33:09","slug":"free-bulk-windows-update-downloader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/free-bulk-windows-update-downloader","title":{"rendered":"Free Bulk Windows Update Downloader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reminder:  The FREE evaluation version of BatchPatch is fully functional.  The only limitation is that you can add a maximum of 4 target hosts to the grid at one time, and you cannot run BatchPatch as a service.  That said, go ahead and <a href=\"\/download\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> a copy today and see how amazingly powerful it is while still being extremely simple to setup and operate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/BatchPatch.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"BatchPatch - The Best Windows Update &amp; WSUS Patch Management Software\" alt=\"microsoft windows patch management software\" src=\"\/images\/BatchPatch.gif\" width=\"510\" height=\"363\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Windows Updates:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/using-batchpatch-to-remotely-install-windows-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Download and install Windows Updates<\/a> on a single computer or on many computers, simultaneously, on-demand or at a scheduled time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/download-the-complete-windows-updates-repository-per-operating-system\" target=\"_blank\">Download the entire Windows Update security updates repository for any Windows operating system<\/a>.  This enables you to then apply Windows Updates to computers that don&#8217;t have access to the internet.  We call this <a href=\"\/offline-patch-management\" target=\"_blank\">offline updating or offline patch management<\/a>, and it&#8217;s accomplished in BatchPatch by enabling <a href=\"\/cached-mode-and-offline-updates\" target=\"_blank\">offline mode<\/a>.  You can even use this method to <a href=\"\/downloading-windows-updates-for-distribution-to-offline-computers-on-high-security-networks\" target=\"_blank\">apply Windows Updates to high-security segregated networks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/create-a-consolidated-report-of-windows-update-history\" target=\"_blank\">Retrieve Windows Update history information<\/a> from target computers.  This feature enables you to quickly and easily view which Windows Updates have previously been applied to computers.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>WSUS Alternative \/ WSUS Replacement<\/h2>\n<p>You can use BatchPatch <a href=\"\/batchpatch-integration-with-wsus-and-group-policy\" target=\"_blank\">in conjunction with<\/a> or <a href=\"\/using-batchpatch-as-a-wsus-alternative\" target=\"_blank\">instead of WSUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Software Deployment<\/h2>\n<p>You can use BatchPatch to <a href=\"\/software-deployment\" target=\"_blank\">deploy software<\/a> such as <a href=\"\/using-batchpatch-to-deploy-adobe-flash-to-numerous-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Flash<\/a>, <a href=\"\/install-adobe-reader-remotely-to-multiple-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Reader<\/a>, <a href=\"\/remotely-install-java-8-on-numerous-computers-simultaneously\" target=\"_blank\">Java<\/a>, <a href=\"\/remotely-installing-skype-on-many-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a>, <a href=\"\/silently-deploy-exes-and-msis-to-computers-on-your-network\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"\/remotely-deploy-google-chrome-to-numerous-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"\/remote-software-installation-with-batchpatch\" target=\"_blank\">7-zip<\/a>, <a href=\"\/deploy-software-remotely-to-many-computers\" target=\"_blank\">Notepad++<\/a>, or <a href=\"\/software-deployment\" target=\"_blank\">just about any other application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Deploy Scripts, Registry Keys, and Standalone Patches<\/h2>\n<p>Use BatchPatch to deploy scripts to target computers or deploy standalone patches such as <a href=\"\/remotely-deploy-a-standalone-msu-update-to-multiple-computers\" target=\"_blank\">.MSI, .MSU, or .MSP<\/a> files.  You can also use BatchPatch to deploy items such as <a href=\"\/deploy-registry-keys-to-multiple-computers-using-batchpatch\" target=\"_blank\">registry keys<\/a>.  In all cases you can execute these deployments across numerous computers at the same time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Retrieve Information<\/h2>\n<p>BatchPatch is great for quickly and easily retrieving information from many target computers.  For example, here are just a few of the items you can retrieve:  Available disk space, operating system version, total uptime, started services, currently logged on users, CPU model etc.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Execute Scripts<\/h2>\n<p>You are able to use BatchPatch to <a href=\"\/executing-remote-commands-with-batchpatch\" target=\"_blank\">execute your own custom scripts or queries<\/a> on many target computers, simultaneously.<\/p>\n<h2 class=brownishOrange>Multi-step Execution<\/h2>\n<p>You can configure BatchPatch to execute actions in one-click sequences that include not only multiple steps per-host, but also involve multiple interdependent hosts with online\/offline dependencies.  This means, for example, you can do things like create a one-click sequence to apply Windows Updates to all VM guests on a single VM host, and then apply Windows Updates to the VM host, and then reboot it along with all the guests on it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/multi-step-execution-using-the-job-queue\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-Step Execution Using the Job Queue<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/advanced-multi-row-queue-sequence\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Multi-Row Queue Sequence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-23-15_40_11-new-1-BatchPatch-X100.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-23-15_40_11-new-1-BatchPatch-X100.png\" alt=\"2016-09-23-15_40_11-new-1-batchpatch-x100\" width=\"649\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-23-15_40_11-new-1-BatchPatch-X100.png 649w, https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-23-15_40_11-new-1-BatchPatch-X100-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminder: The FREE evaluation version of BatchPatch is fully functional. The only limitation is that you can add a maximum of 4 target hosts to the grid at one time, and you cannot run BatchPatch as a service. That said, go ahead and download a copy today and see how amazingly powerful it is while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,3],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general","category-tutorials","tag-free-bulk-windows-update-downloader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batchpatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}