Comments on: Manage Windows Update installations using Windows PowerShell

By: Mark Garza

Mark Garza — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:45:41 +0000

Was getting the following error when running code locally. Any ideas?

Invoke-WindowsUpdate.ps1:98 char:30
+ $Result= $downloader.Download <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation

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By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:19:37 +0000

Very nice and it works (maybe too well) on my test machine – in the present configuration it grabs every update listed.

Is there any way to modify the script to install updates sorted by priority? For example, I want to install everything that’s classified as Critical, Important, Moderate, or Low, but not “Unknown”. The “Unknown” updates seem to be things like IE9, SP1, and so forth that requires user intervention/major system changes.

By: Jan Egil Ring

Jan Egil Ring — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:56:58 +0000

Hi,
It`s free – use it on your own risk You could download it and run it manually to see how it works.

By: ewen

ewen — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:19:10 +0000

How can I test out your script? Can I buy it, use it for free?

By: eclipsed450

eclipsed450 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:27:20 +0000

So, I could fire use ServerA to initiate your script to be run locally on ServerB, but in the same token, waiting for it to get some sort of return so that it can send the ‘up’ signal. I’ll see if it can make that happen thanks!

By: Jan Egil Ring

Jan Egil Ring — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:35:29 +0000

You could set up a ping monitor script and add/remove servers to the loadbalancer based on that. However, what you want is probably to add/remove them based on the availability of the services they provide, and that is more trickier to accomplish with scripting.

By: eclipsed450

eclipsed450 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:36:27 +0000

Moreso how to run a premade exe that handles the ‘in’/'out’ of the servers in the loadbanacer. Your script seems it would handle the ‘out’ fine, as that could just be added to this — however, I was wondering about when the server is done getting the updates and has rebooted, if there would be a way to catch that in some sort of script so that it could be put back ‘in’ the loadbalancer…

By: Jan Egil Ring

Jan Egil Ring — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:56:56 +0000

Hi,

You mean how to put it back into loadbalancing? How is the configuration for the loadbalancer exposed? Text-file, database, etc?

By: eclipsed450`

eclipsed450` — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:03:56 +0000

Great post, thanks for sharing! I have one question regarding this: our servers are behind a loadbalancer, and we have a script that takes them out of it when it’s going down for a reboot – which would be easy to add to this – however, can you think of any way to have it put back in via script when this is all done? We wouldn’t want it added in a startup script, because there may be a time when we reboot and don’t want it back in. We can’t set a follow-up scheduled task, because we may be putting it back in before it’s done with the updates.