Tag: WuInstall

Update: Patch Management for Guest VMS with Windows Update Server and WUInstall on vSphere

November 24, 2014

I previously described steps to automate approved updates from a WSUS server with WUInstall for virtual machines managed by VMware vCenter Server (https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/patch-management-for-guest-vms-with-windows-update-server-and-wuinstall-on-vsphere/). I have recently updated this process to filter virtual machines objects by tagging objects in the new functionality in the vSphere Web Client. Also, the previous process had no concept of  task parallelism, which has now … More Update: Patch Management for Guest VMS with Windows Update Server and WUInstall on vSphere

Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

March 25, 2014

I recently wrote about checking the last success time of Windows Update and reporting this to Nagios (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-mj). Now what happens if you do not use Windows Update as your patch management solution. In my case I have been managing the installation of updates using WUInstall (http://www.wuinstall.com). When my updates are installed the registry is … More Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

Patch Management for guest VMs with Windows Update Server and WuInstall on vSphere

January 24, 2014

I previously detailed steps to automate approved updates from a WSUS server with WUInstall (https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/patch-management-with-windows-update-server-and-wuinstall/) which focused on installing updates on Amazon Web Services EC2 instances. I have recently modified the process to take into account VM guests in a vSphere environment ,using the same process of client side targeting and executing WuInstall on the … More Patch Management for guest VMs with Windows Update Server and WuInstall on vSphere

Patch Management with Windows Update Server and WuInstall

September 24, 2013

I was recently looking to schedule approved updates from Windows Update Server and schedule updates with finer granularity than those provided by the Windows Update Services client. I discovered a command line utility called WuInstall  (http://www.wuinstall.com/index.php/en) which allows for updates to be installed on demand. As part of this solution, I still required updates to … More Patch Management with Windows Update Server and WuInstall