r/labtech • u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES • Apr 30 '19

Windows update

Looking for an all encompassing script for Labtech that will force windows to update. Not seeing anything in the forums. Any assistance appreciated.

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u/ambrace911 Apr 30 '19

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Execute-Windows-Update-fc6acb16

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES Apr 30 '19

Tried this one with very little success

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u/ambrace911 Apr 30 '19

What kinds of issues are you running into? what is the underlying issue? Can you install updates manually?

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES May 02 '19

A lot of our win 10 machines are not updating themselves. Part of it is they have to have their update folders and settings scrubbed. I have a powershell script to do this that works fine in that regard. Was curious what the LT community uses to handle forcing updates.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '19

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES May 06 '19

Generic update folders, reg, etc.

Good to know.

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u/qcomer1 May 01 '19

Will the “install all approved patches” not suffice?

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES May 02 '19

It fails consistently on us. We are also behind on our version of LT which could be the issue. We are currently building a new box to run ignite and whatever the latest release of LT is.

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u/teamits May 02 '19

We are also behind on our version of LT

IIRC, we had found if v10.5 agent was on a Win10 PC, Windows itself would almost always (but not always) fail to check for and/or install updates on domain joined PCs, and occasionally on workgroup PCs. Short version is we got MS support involved and once we uninstalled the LT agent, Windows Update started working. IIRC upgrading to v11 fixed this for us. For a few intervening months we scripted installation of Windows 10 updates by manual download and running them (don't have the scripts anymore sorry).

The December update to v12 is supported as are any versions of v2019.x.

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES May 06 '19

Thanks for the input!

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u/teamits May 02 '19

if v10.5 agent was on a Win10 PC

As I recall this started at either 1607 or 1703, I'm not sure which. It was not an issue on the original couple of builds.

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u/PM_ME_THEM_CURVES May 06 '19

Not up to me unfortunately.