{"id":3893,"date":"2013-04-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/04\/02\/windows-software-update-services\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:59:00","slug":"windows-software-update-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/windows-software-update-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Software Update Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Honorary Scripting Guy, Boe Prox, shares an excerpt from his contribution to the book, PowerShell Deep Dives<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week we will not have our usual PowerTip<\/strong>. Instead we have excerpts from seven books from Manning Press. In addition, each blog will have a special code for 50% off the book being excerpted that day. Remember that the code is valid only for the day the excerpt is posted. The coupon code is also valid for a second book from the Manning collection.<\/p>\n

Today, the excerpt is from PowerShell Deep Dives<\/a>
     Edited by Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic.<\/p>\n

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Whether you just started using Windows PowerShell or are at a more advanced level, there are two things you should always look at while writing a script: performance and execution time. With the introduction of Windows PowerShell 3.0 there are a lot of new modules and cmdlets available to you. What a lot of people don’t realize is that Microsoft also improves and expands already existing modules, and their cmdlets. This is especially the case with Windows PowerShell 3.0.<\/p>\n

Here’s Boe…<\/p>\n

Although the UI can be clunky and slow, there is an API with WSUS, a new module that is available in Windows Server 2012, and even an open source WSUS module that I wrote called PoshWSUS<\/a>, which can more effectively allow you to quickly manage and generate reports by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n

Instead of looking at the existing cmdlets available in the 2012 Windows Server Update Services module, I will dive into the API and show you some tricks to further extend the reach of Windows PowerShell into WSUS. I’ll show how to:<\/p>\n