Managing WSUS Updates

Microsoft produces a large number of updates and has ever since Microsoft first introduced WSUS. You can manage these updates via the GUI or PowerShell. As with other aspects of managing WSUS, managing updates via PowerShell means using the WSUS server object and its associated methods.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1 after installing and configuring WSUS on WSUS1.

How to do it...

1. Creating a remoting session to WSUS1

   $SessionHT = @{
     ConfigurationName = 'microsoft.powershell'
     ComputerName      = 'WSUS1'
     Name              = 'WSUS'
   }
   $Session = New-PSSession @SessionHT
   

2. Viewing the status of WSUS1

   Invoke-Command -Session $Session -ScriptBlock {
     $WSUSServer = Get-WsusServer
     $WSUSServer.GetStatus()
   }
   

3. Viewing computer targets

   Invoke-Command -Session $Session -ScriptBlock {
     $WSUSServer.GetComputerTargets() | 
       Sort-Object -Property FullDomainName...