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Submitted by Doug Z
Remote Reboot X is very useful for sys admins to install updates on MANY remote computers simultaneously and then reboot them all with real-time monitoring.
The tool works in conjunction with WSUS, so if you have a WSUS server (or use Microsoft’s update server) but need precise control over when your computers install the updates and reboot, you can use my tool to handle the process. So, for example, I have about 150 servers that need to be updated and rebooted once per month, but I only have a 1-hour maintenance window. I’m able to load the list of 150 servers into my tool and initiate the updates installation and reboot on all machines simultaneously while monitoring the status in real-time.
If there is a problem either with installing an update or rebooting any of the machines (sometimes a machine might hang on reboot, for example), I learn about it immediately and can address it right away. To my knowledge there is no other tool that provides this degree of control.
The tool does not pull updates from WSUS to push to remote servers. My tool simply tells the remote servers to install updates that they have already downloaded, or if they have not been downloaded it can initiate both the download and installation process.
Specific recommendations for best ways to use this tool are explained on my website, but generally speaking admins should use Group Policy to tell their machines to download but not install updates from WSUS. Then the updates are ready and waiting for the admin to initiate at his/her convenience using Remote Reboot X.
Update: The tool is no longer free and is now called Batchpatch.
This product is not free anymore.
Thanks, for the hint. I removed the tool from the list of free admin tools.