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We are using WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) for updating employees computers (laptops/desktops running on Win10/11), currently WSUS is running on an EC2 instance in AWS.

Our goal is to get rid of WSUS EC2 instance and use some cloud based solution instead, preferably serverless running on AWS, could you please recommend us some solution which would suit our requirements?

Our first idea was to use AWS SSM but with SSM you are able to manage only Windows Server instances but you cannot manage personal computers running on Windows10&11.

I'm trying to export a CSV file from WSUS using PowerShell containing a list of all computers that need updates and the titles or KBs of the updates each particular computer needs. Something like this...

Computer1, update1, update2

Computer2, update1, update3, update5

Computer3, update2, update4

I found this script on TechNet that returns the computer name and how many updates are needed, but it doesn't return the titles of the updates, and it may return all computers in WSUS, not just the ones that need updates (I'm in a test environment of only 1 computer right now).

I have a really simple issue that I can't seem to figure out...

I have a powershell script to update WSUS data and then export it so I can burn it to CD for our secure environment, everything works great, except running the wsusutil.exe I get an error when trying to define arguments.

Here's the original script

We use WSUS Package Publisher to deploy "Data Loss Prevention" to our Windows 10 clients. We entered the properties (optional command line in WSUSPP) in the form PROPERTYNAME1="value1" PROPERTYNAME2="value2", but in WindowsUpdate.log the "MSI final command line" is missing the first quote (PROPERTYNAME1=value1" ...) and therefore the installation fails with code 0x80070667 (Bad command line). And yes, the quotes are necessary because one property is a path with blanks. When entering three quotes as opener to the first value, the final command line shows one opening quote, but there is an additional quote added at the end of the property string.

Is there a way to mask the quotes or the blanks? Or use an other string terminator? Or are we missing something else?

EDIT Used the ORCA-utility as @Stein Asmul suggested and generated a new MSI file containing the requested properties. The final MSI command line now shows as

I'm a bit stumped by this one, so I'm working to automate a particular process for WSUS in an offline environment. Basically just prepping the export of files after they've been approved manually and getting them ready to burn to CD for the isolated environment.

It needs to do a few things. First, it needs to clean the export folder (check), make a complete replica of the existing WSUS folder in a new location (check), identify how many new files were uploaded into that replica location (check), copy ONLY those new files to an export folder maintaining the folder structure, EVEN if the folder is empty (check...kinda). My problem is that when the files move over, they are outside of the folders... And of course, logging...

I'm testing this on my personal laptop with a mock environment. So, here's my code so far...

For reducing traffic on our VPN routes, I need to download the windows updates from an external server while reporting to our internal server.

So I'm doing the following:

Create an UpdateSession and Search for Updates, storing them in $SearchResult. Then I download the Updates from an external Server and then I want to pass them into the Windows Update Api via IUpdate2.CopyToCache(IStringCollection)

Everything is just fine, except passing the StringCollection into the Method CopyToCache and it just ends up with an 'Specified cast is not valid.'-Error.

This is my code:

Thank's for help! eldo-ob

I'm trying to configure the Application Pool of WsusPool, on a MS WSUS setup, to raise the Failure Rapid-Fail Protection Interval from 5 minutes to 30 minutes as an administrator using PowerShell.

I'm able to get the setting using

I have a datastudio time series chart where the x axis represents the dates in a month which is got from a query and the y axis represents the cpu utilization value for a instance, The break down dimension is the instancename. When I create the time series chart, the x-axis does not display all the datas, it displays dates with 2 days interval which is filled by dots. Is there any way i can fill the dates instead of the dots in a continuous pattern.

Update

As per the given answer below I have updated this question. Now the unnecessary dots have been removed and it displays the dots only for which there is data, but is there any ways that the dates can be continuous for which there is data, ex as per the below chart there is data for all the dates between July8 to July 23 for the particular instance gcp-wsus, but it still displays dates with a 2 day gap interval July8,July11,July14 etc.

Can this gap be filled with dates also? Thanks

for my complex system i am looking for a way to sign a powershellscript not with powershell but with C# / .NetCore

here the Powershell version: