HELP! Batch Scripting

[Jan Lao]

not really into programming, can someone help me with this? im trying to run windows update to almost a hundreds of machines is there a way to run windows update through script? i know the command wuauclt /detectnow /updatenow . what i want my script to do is to check online for updates from windows update, because currently im doing it manually is this possible?

[LtStaffel]

learn programming, don't take someone's free help when it comes to administration

[Windows7ge]

I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to do it but tinkering with basic level programming (this might be considered dirty programming) I've written batch files from within C# or VB coded applications and launched those files. So in theory if you can write a script that creates and executes the batch like on the desktop or just the C:/ directory then that'd check & update the systems all at once over the network.

 

This isn't a direct answer though. You'll still have to do your own research.

[leonfagan71]

You could use PSTOOLS - It essentially runs a command on another computer.

But it really depends on how the computers are configured to if it works or not.

If you're on a domain network then you'd just pass a network username and password but if not then you're going to have to work out how to pass different credentials per computer.

 

For a domain network you could just create a list of every computer and then just loop through it via a batch file, executing the PSEXEC command each time.