Tag Archives: wsus

Speaking at the Mississippi PowerShell Users Group on WSUS in September

I have the honor of being a speaker at the Mississippi PowerShell Users Group (MSPUG) on September 10th. A big thank you to Mike Robbins (Twitter | Blog) for extending the invitation to talk about one of my chapters from … Continue reading

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Using the WSUS API and PowerShell to Perform Maintenance on the SUSDB Database

In my previous article, I showed how you can utilize the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) API to connect to the SUSDB database that is being used by the WSUS server to perform T-SQL queries against the database for information. … Continue reading

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Use the WSUS API and PowerShell to query the SUSDB Database

While we know that the WSUS API can be used to perform a multitude of WSUS tasks from approving patches, removing clients to creating automatic approval rules. Diving deeper into the API reveals that we can also find out the … Continue reading

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Guest Post On Hey, Scripting Guy! on Using The UpdateServices WSUS Module

My latest guest spot on Hey, Scripting Guy! is live today! I continue my article on managing the new WSUS server on Windows Server 2012 using the UpdateServices module. I go through each of the cmdlets that are available and … Continue reading

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Guest Article on Hey, Scripting Guy! Talking WSUS on Server 2012

I have a guest article that is out today talking about installing WSUS on Windows Server 2012. There will be at least one more article coming from Hey,Scripting Guy! talking about WSUS on Server 2012 and the new UpdateServices module … Continue reading

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