As promised here is a quick write up on how I am doing security patches for our servers. Basically I am able to run the script during normal work hours and schedule the patching for the evening. At night when the patching starts I get email notifications […]
Read more →Below is an example how you can restart a service on one more many systems using Script Zombie as the controlling application: @echo off Echo. Echo Remotely Restart a Service Echo ————————– sc \\%1 stop servicename sc \\%1 start servicename In this example we use SC.exe (Service Control) to first stop […]
Read more →From time to time you need a method to create and test for the existence of a zero byte file in your scripting. I use these files as flags, so that I know if an earlier prerequisite process completed successfully. Creating the zero byte file is a simple […]
Read more →When using Script Zombie to apply system/security patches I was frequently checking WindowsUpdate logs on the remote systems. To help automate the process I create the simple script below. If ran from Script Zombie it will display the WindowsUpdate.log file in notepad for every workstation you have selected in the host list. […]
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