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Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) PowerShell cmdlets

Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) PowerShell cmdlets - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) PowerShell cmdlets

- In Server 2012's Windows software update services one of the things that's been added to the environment is the ability to manage your WSUS server once it's been installed through PowerShell. As we've discussed in other sessions, PowerShell is Microsoft's new scripting language, new command line language that we can use in our environment, and every product that's in the Server 2012 environment can now be managed by PowerShell. So let's take a few moments and look at some of the PowerShell commandlets that are available specifically for WSUS, or the Windows Software Update Services. One of the first issues that you have to have here, or one of the first requirements is WSUS needs to be installed on the computer that you want to manage WSUS with PowerShell commandlets. If it's not, you will not have the commandlets. If I do a get dash module in the list available, the actual manifest that's designed for the WSUS environment is actually called update services. That's the manifest. If…

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