Installing Patches/Application remotely on windows Machine using Psexec

Installing pathes/Application on a remote computer is not a tough one when you have lots of Microsoft and third party application to do this for us.Chances that few companies still does not wanted to relay on software to install patches and Administrator manually installed this. You should ask this question to the Administrators who works on weekend installing patches manually, do you like this to do every weekend ? I am sure he will give you very dirty look for sure

Below is the small piece of code you may like to use it for installing pathces or any small application on various computer remotely.

Prerequisits
1. Download PSExec.exe from Microsoft.com (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx) and copy to C:\Psexec.exe
2. Create C:\Hotfixes and dump the path here
3. Copy below code and save it as C:\patchinstall.vbs
4. Create C:\Servers.txt with list of servername
5. Rename with the appropriate name
6. Open command prompt type cscript C:\patchinstall.vbs

This code will copy the patch to all the remote computer mentioned in C:\Servers.txt under C:\Hotfixes and it uses psexec.exe to install the patch on the remote computer

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
set filetxt = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Servers.txt",1)
strPSExec = "C:\PSExec.exe"
rbcopy = "c:\Windows\System32\Robocopy.exe"


strPSExec = objFSO.GetFile(strPSExec).ShortPath
rbcopy = objFSO.GetFile(rbcopy).ShortPath
 
do Until filetxt.AtEndOfStream
 strComputer = filetxt.Readline
 strComputer = trim(strComputer) 
 
 strCmd = "cmd /C " & rbcopy  & " C:\Hotfixes" & " \\" & strComputer & "\c$\Hotfixes"
 wscript.echo strcmd
 objShell.Run strCmd, 1, True
 
 strCmd = "cmd /C " & strPSExec & " \\" & strComputer & " ""C:\Hotfixes\<Hotfixname.exe>"" /quite"
 wscript.echo strcmd
 objShell.Run strCmd, 1, True

Loop

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