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Introduction to PoshWSUS, a Free PowerShell Module to Manage WSUS

Summary: Guest blogger, Boe Prox, discusses the development of the free Windows PowerShell module that he wrote to manage WSUS.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we are celebrating our 2000th Hey, Scripting Guy! blog. I think that in the spirit of community, it is appropriate that today we also have a guest blogger, Boe Prox, ...

Get Windows Update Status Information by Using PowerShell

Summary: Learn how to use the WSUS Update Scope with Windows PowerShell to get update status information for client computers.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. What a week. Boe Prox has certainly been sharing quite a bit of Windows PowerShell goodness. In case you have missed them, here are links to the blog series thus far. You ...

Use PowerShell to Find Missing Updates on WSUS Client Computers

Summary: Learn how to use the computer target scope with Windows PowerShell to find WSUS client computers that are missing updates.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We are halfway through WSUS Week and some really good stuff from Boe Prox. You can see Boe’s biography in the Day 1 blog. In case you need to catch up with the ...

Approve or Decline WSUS Updates by Using PowerShell

Summary: Guest blogger, Boe Prox, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to approve or to decline updates for WSUS.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome to the third day of Boe Prox as our guest blogger talking about using Windows PowerShell with WSUS.Day 1: Introduction to WSUS and PowerShellDay 2: Use PowerShell to Perform ...