Restart computer remotely update#

If we go back to the services.msc console and double-click our ‘Windows Update’ service, we can see that while the ‘Service name:’ is listed as “wuauserv”, the ‘Display name:’ is listed as “Windows Update.” In BatchPatch if we want to restart a service on many remote computers, the first thing we need to do is identify the ‘DisplayName’ of the service that we want to restart. We can get the same information in BatchPatch for numerous target computers, if needed, using ‘Actions > Services / Processes > List all services’ Now we can view the entire list of services for a given computer along with their functions and their current statuses. To do this select ‘Start > Run’ and then type ‘services.msc’ into the ‘Run’ command line. Let’s start by having a look at the services console in Windows.

Restart computer remotely update#

Let’s use the Windows Update service as our primary example today because after all BatchPatch is the ultimate Windows Update tool. With BatchPatch you can very quickly and easily execute a service restart on many remote computers, simultaneously. I’m sure many of you have spent the time to write scripts that do this kind of thing, but even in those cases you usually have to wait for each target to be touched, sequentially. Every systems administrator at one time or another has needed to stop, start, or restart a service on numerous remote computers quickly and painlessly.

Today’s posting is going to be pretty quick.