How to use Powershell to see status of an update in server?

Question

I made an update server using WSUS 6.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. I want to see the status of an update (e.g: KB3035583) using powershell. I know there are some way to do that but I don't know any of them.

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '16 at 12:39

As far as I understand your question you need Get-WsusUpdate cmdlet.

Full information on the cmdlet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh826154(v=wps.630).aspx

List of WSUS PowerShell cmdlets: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh826154(v=wps.630).aspx

A nice blog about how to use the UpdateServices PowerShell Module to Manage WSUS: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2013/05/27/use-the-updateservices-module-to-manage-wsus/

I hope it helps.

`Get-WsusUpdate` returns a list of all updates. For large amount of approved updates, it causes time out error without any result! — SuB, Oct 15 '16 at 20:41

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '16 at 20:53

Use following commands:

$wsus = [Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy]::getUpdateServer()
$wsus.SearchUpdates("KB3035583")

See the output for details of the update. Please note that KB number is not a unique specifier of an update, i.e multiple updates could have same KB number. So you may see multiple result from .SearchUpdates method.

How to use Powershell to see status of an update in server?

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