{"id":73851,"date":"2015-08-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/20\/powertip-see-what-update-help-does-on-your-system\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:34","slug":"powertip-see-what-update-help-does-on-your-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-see-what-update-help-does-on-your-system\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: See What Update-Help Does on Your System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to see what the <b>Update-Help<\/b> cmdlet does on your system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I see what <b>Update-Help<\/b> does on my Windows 10 computer&mdash;if anything?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Open the Windows PowerShell console with Admin rights, type <b>Update-Help<\/b>, and add the <b>&ndash;Verbose<\/b> switch. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It will list everything that it does, the versions of Help that are current, and which versions are updated. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here is such a command:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Hpdate-Help -Module * -Force -Verbose<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to see what the Update-Help cmdlet does on your system. &nbsp;How can I see what Update-Help does on my Windows 10 computer&mdash;if anything? &nbsp;Open the Windows PowerShell console with Admin rights, type Update-Help, and add the &ndash;Verbose switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It will list everything that it does, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[609,356,3,608,45],"class_list":["post-73851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-5","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to see what the Update-Help cmdlet does on your system. &nbsp;How can I see what Update-Help does on my Windows 10 computer&mdash;if anything? &nbsp;Open the Windows PowerShell console with Admin rights, type Update-Help, and add the &ndash;Verbose switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It will list everything that it does, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}