An organisation we work with have removed Microsoft QuickAssist from their corporate build – presumably they saw this as a potential security risk. Here we explain how to avoid error 0x800f0906 by Bypassing the Windows Updates Server. We had an … Continue reading
Sometimes in a batch file we need to wait for a service to stop in a batch file before we continue to processing our script. NET STOP will only wait a finite amount of time for a service to stop, … Continue reading
Sometimes when we’re debugging an application we might want to ensure that every DLL (or OCX) is registered correctly. And rather than registering each assembly manually we can write a batch file to register or unregister DLLs in a folder: … Continue reading
Here’s a script that will check if a windows update exists on a device. Yes, there are manual ways of finding out by navigating to Control Panel > Programs and Features > View Installed Updates, but sometimes it’s quicker to … Continue reading
A while ago I needed to wait for a process in a batch file to finish before the script continued. I did it by using an If statement to create a ‘spoof’ loop, with a delay between each loop iteration … Continue reading