Tag Archives: updates

What’s New in PoshRSJob

I’ve been hard at work on PoshRSJob to address some some bugs as well as adding some new features that have been reported in the Issues page on the GitHub site for the module. Some of the feature requests on … Continue reading

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WSUS Reporting: Digging Into Target Groups and Update Statuses Using PowerShell

I had an email recently asking how to report on the number of updates per Target Group. Basically when a report is run using the WSUS Management Console, you can create a tabular report that displays something similar to this: … Continue reading

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Installing Updates Via The SCCM Client

Continuing from my last blog entry on checking for pending updates on the SCCM client, I will now show how you can use this information to determine if an installation is already occurring and performing an installation if nothing is … Continue reading

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Find Pending Updates via the SCCM Client Agent With PowerShell

One of the nice things about SCCM is that you can use it along with WSUS to push out software updates for your operating system. an even better thing is that the API is accessible via PowerShell. There are several … Continue reading

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WSUS: Approving and Declining Updates with PowerShell

Now that we have looked at viewing all of the updates on WSUS, we will now look at approving and declining those updates.  This can be a little bit tricky as you need to also know what Computer Target Group … Continue reading

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