🔴PSWindowsUpdate: a WSUS alternative for Deploy and Connect

[@ehrichsj]

Love it! Putting this all together in our environment now!

[@pdq]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it

[@lio_convoy714]

Using deploy is there a way to use WSUS and not Microsoft? At 7:45 you stated you stated there was a flag for WSUS to be used where is that flag entered at? This is going to be used for updates we approve.

[@pdq]

Good question! You will want to add the -WSUS parameter to the "Get Available Windows Updates" PowerShell Scanner. Here's a link to that: github.com/pdqcom/PowerShell-Scanners/tree/master/PowerShell%20Scanners/Get%20Available%20Windows%20Updates see the readme if you haven't set that up yet. When it comes to the PSWindowsUpdate packages to install the updates, you are going to need to convert the package to a standard package and then modify the script. Try removing the -MicrosoftUpdate parameter from Get-WindowsUpdate. As always, test things properly before deploying to all computers.

[@jeffreyooi1971]

Hi sir, just wanna ask. My company have more than one thousand of computers and most of them are not patch. So which packages (PDQ Deploy package) I should use to update them because there are so many different KB. Thank you.

[@pdq]

Hi Jeffrey, I recommend getting started by using the "Get Available Windows Updates" PowerShell Scanner on your targets to see what updates are needed in your environment. Try making a report from the results, this'll help you get an idea of which updates you are missing. You can also make use of the "PSWindowsUpdate - Install Applicable Critical and Security Updates from Microsoft" package to get your targets their critical and security updates. You could also use our Cumulative Update packages to install the latest Cumulative Updates to your computers. After running that, try running your report again and see what KBs are missing. As always, make sure to test before deploying to all of your machines. If you run into any issues, you can reach out to our awesome support team here and they can help out: help.pdq.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[@jeffreyooi1971]

@@pdq Thank you will try it out. One more question, what is the URL and port that need to open in order for the PSWindowsUpdate to work as all our computers are behind firewall and do not have Internet access.

[@Tcrazy4u]

It's been a long time since I've on this channel. What happened to Lex and Shane?

[@claybecker13]

The scanner in Inventory seems to force computers to check for updates with Windows Update instead of WSUS. I have the -wsus parameter on the scanner. Our policy excludes drivers and there aren't any available on our update server, but the scanner is returning drivers as available updates?

[@pdq]

Do you get the same results when you run the scanner without the -wsus parameter?

[@claybecker13]

@@pdq sorry to reply so late, but no it doesn''t. If it's run without the -wsus parameter it returns available updates from our wsus. adding -wsus makes it return available updates from windows update.

[@ivanusradu]

How can I use the automated packages to install only from wsus and not microsoft? and why do the scripts delete the wupdate reg info?

[@pdq]

You would have to modify the script so that it doesn't use the -MicrosoftUpdate parameter on Get-WindowsUpdate and Install-WindowsUpdate.

[@ivanusradu]

@@pdq Thanks! Any idea why some updates from Microsoft would only download and not Install?

[@claybecker13]

@@pdq why does it delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate like they said? I haven't had too much time to look at the script.

[@richardstovall6742]

anyone else get an error like this when attempting to scan collections? The term '.\\PSF988D9EEF7240A26EB8E5653CA12131E0637CBEF5477E876B9A0F5B4010428E5.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

[@pdq]

Did you put the PowerShell Scanner files in C:\PowerShell-Scanners\PowerShell Scanners? If you are still having issues, our awesome support team can help: help.pdq.com/hc/en-us/requests/new