Chapter 7. Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing Windows Server Update Services
- Configuring WSUS update synchronization
- Configuring the Windows update client
- Creating computer groups
- Configuring WSUS auto-approvals
- Reporting missing updates
- Installing updates
- Uninstalling updates
- Configuring WSUS to inventory clients
- Creating an update report
- Exporting WSUS data to Excel
Introduction
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a feature included in Windows Server 2012 that allows administrators to manage the distribution of updates, hotfixes, and service packs to clients. WSUS downloads updates from the public Microsoft Update servers, and clients then connect to the WSUS server to download ...
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