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Copper Contributor

May 22, 2020

Get-WUHistory freezes

Hi, Recently we compiled Powershell cmdlets to get the windows updates history and save it to our website. It works perfectly fine with Server 2016 and Win 10 but we also have customers with Win 8.1...

Copper Contributor

Jul 08, 2020

Me too face the same problem, observes this in our env too... Did you find any solution ?

Thx, Vasu

mscottford
Copper Contributor
Dec 18, 2020
VasuWindows I ran into this as well. I went searching for the source code for the https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSWindowsUpdate/2.0.0.4 module but I could not find a reliable source for that. Instead, I attached a debugger and tried to figure out what was going on. It looks like there's an infinite loop when the -Last parameter is not specified. So I'm working around this problem by making sure I specify -Last 100. The command reliably stops in that case.

Here's a full example for clarity:

Get-WUHistory -MaxDate (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -Last 100

I wish that this module's source code was hosted somewhere like GitHub because then I would be able to dig in deeper and hopefully provide a root cause fix to the problem.
- VasuWindows
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 04, 2021
  Thansk much, it worked like charm . Great job mscottford
- srbishb
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 31, 2020
  mscottford
  
  Thanks for posting this solution. -Last 100 worked perfectly

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