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Troubleshooting Windows updates
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Thursday, Nov 30, 2023, 08:30 AM PSTEvent details
Join us for a deep dive into reporting and logging for Windows updates. We will show you how you can utilize reporting in the most effective manner. We will also look at logging and help you understa...
Char_Cheesman
Updated Dec 27, 2024
M0rth0s
Nov 30, 2023Brass Contributor
After watching the demo, I attempted to follow along and look for the .txt file found at C:\ProgramData\USOShared\Logs\User and System. However, there was no .txt file. Tried following Microsoft KB's found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/windows-update-logs and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/windowsupdate/get-windowsupdatelog?view=windowsserver2022-ps&viewFallbackFrom=win10-ps&preserve-view=tru . Get-WindowsUpdateLog -ETLPath resulted in error.
Is there a KB that shows how to convert the ETL files from C:\ProgramData\USOShared\Logs\User to .txt?
AndresPae
Dec 07, 2023Brass Contributor
This is amazing how Microsoft tries to stop people to read *.etl files. There was pretty good tool called Message Analyzer, but it was discontinued on 2019 and even download was removed from MS pages. For now we (as customers) have limited set for parsing etl - separate method for every case - one tool for performance related, one for network captures, one for updates (not covering it entirely).