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Looking for an some help finding an easy way to remove windows updates via PowerShell, however I believe I have ran into several issues.

Goals

1. Check against and uninstall updates based off the data in the $data_array
2. Pause Windows updates until a Hotfix or Update can be pressed
3. Understand how jobs work better

Issues

1. I don't believe the $data is being sent to the wusa /uninstall /kb:$data /promptrestart the main reason I believe this is the error from Windows update standalone installer throws an error without the package number (FIG. 1)
2. Every job is firing off all at once instead of being staggered, having very limited experience with jobs I don't know where to start on troubleshooting. I have tried by using Get-Job | Retrieve-Job but don't seem to get much information of status or returned variables
3. I would like to name the jobs so I know more specifically which ones have complete or which step they are at

Code Snippet

I need to edit a script that I found here so that I can first see a report of the files it will delete including File name and path along with the "LastWriteTime" property so that I can analyze the output of the script for a couple of months before executing and before I configure it as a scheduled task:

I have tried playing around with the LastWriteTime object property for a while but I dont know what else to do..

Below is the code:

Background: I am using the file and folder watcher "DiskPulse" (Win 10) to identify a new image files (.png) in several folders. DiskPulse saves a new text file (C:\diskpulse.txt) containing an image file path, and calls a powershell (ps) script that sends the new file to telegram. I am using the poshgram module to send the new file to telgram.

Problem 1:
To send the new file, its file path and name needs to be identified first from a text file deposited by the file and folder wather DiskPulse (C:\diskpulse.txt). I only know the file extension (*.png) and the beginning of the file path (C:\*) of the new image file beforehand. Also, I am not sure if I should use -SimpleMatch or -Pattern for the search. The content of diskpulse.txt looks like this:

"03-Oct-2020 11:38:04 Modified 29.54 KB administrator C:\local\files\snapshots\nameofimagefile.png"

Problem 2:
The identified file path needs to be handed over to poshgram (the $photo variable specifies the file path for poshgram).

This is the code for the ps-file I came up with so far:

Sorry for a possibly simple question, but honestly I cannot form the right solution.

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This is a bit hard for me to describe:

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Ended up using this:

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I have the below code that does what I need however it is slow am wondering if there is any faster alternatives that could do the same.

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In a PowerShell script I'm trying to filter the output of the exiftool(-k).exe command below, using Select-String.

I've tried numerous permutations, but none work, and I always see the unfiltered output. What do I need to do to filter the output of this command?