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Output Log for PSWindowsUpdate module
Hi,
I'm deploying PSWindowsUpdate module to manage Windows Updates on around 70 servers.
I've already deployed remotely the module and now I can check for updates and install them (tried on 1 server as example).
So what I need first of all is to extract a list of available updates to a central location for analysis, so I can make some tests and then prepare the deployment of the updates.
So first question, is it possible to export the output into a csv format, so I can easily ingest that from all my servers to analysis?
Second question, when getting the available updates, is it possible to get the update category as well? I know it's possible to search of a specific category using the parameter -Category. But I would like to sort that into the output file.
Thanks
I never use PSWindowsUpdate, but let's try to resolve this.
I used the cmdlet Get-WUList.
You wont be able to export the result by simply pipelining it to export-csv as the object is a Collection You can see this by running (Get-WUList).GetType()
Anyway, you still can export it by using the following line
(Get-WUList).GetEnumerator() | Export-Csv -Path C:\MyUpdate.csvSame thing applied for the category.
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I never use PSWindowsUpdate, but let's try to resolve this.
I used the cmdlet Get-WUList.
You wont be able to export the result by simply pipelining it to export-csv as the object is a Collection You can see this by running (Get-WUList).GetType()
Anyway, you still can export it by using the following line
(Get-WUList).GetEnumerator() | Export-Csv -Path C:\MyUpdate.csvSame thing applied for the category.
That was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much, and I've learned something new.
I'm trying to get the "Category" or "RootCategories", but as it's a parameter for the cmdlet, I'm not being ablet to understand how will I extract "Category" or "RootCategories".
Thanks
