totally out of my area (but not OT) - Windows updates script

[ccc31807]

This is totally out of my area, but not OT.

I have an urgent request from a Windows sysadmin to write a script to
install Windows updates from Microsoft. I frankly have no f!@#king
idea how to do it or how to even start thinking about doing it.

Can this be done with Perl?

If so, does anyone have a script to share? Even if it might not work,
just looking at it would be helpful.

TIA, CC.

 

[Frank Seitz]

I have an urgent request from a Windows sysadmin to write a script to
install Windows updates from Microsoft. I frankly have no f!@#king
idea how to do it or how to even start thinking about doing it.

Google? CPAN?

Frank

 

[Jürgen Exner]

This is totally out of my area, but not OT.

I have an urgent request from a Windows sysadmin to write a script to
install Windows updates from Microsoft.

You need to be very specific here.
Windows Update (upper case "U") is a mostly ActiveX-based client side
application together with a server-side database, which together
determine which updates (lower case "u") are appropriate for a given
machine, download them, and install them if so configured.

Windows updates (lower case "u") are simply self-extracting EXEs or CABs
or ZIPs or sometimes other self-installing packages which you can simply
download from the Microsoft download server and execute/call.
Now, the trick would be to find out which one of the gazillions
different versions you will need for a specific computer considering
OS-version, language, market, previous updates, .....

Your sysadmin would probably be far better of to use Microsoft's site
admin tools, which will download the updates once to a central local
server and then distribute them locally.

jue

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Your sysadmin would probably be far better of to use Microsoft's site
admin tools, which will download the updates once to a central local
server and then distribute them locally.

Found the link again. Please see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466186.aspx or the
corresponding page for your market.

jue