Jan Reilink

Jan Reilink

Hi there, I'm Jan and this is my blog.

Install Windows Updates using PowerShell

PowerShell Get-Command PSWindowsUpdate lists all available cmdlets within the PSWindowsUpdate module

You can use PowerShell to install Windows Updates automatically, unattended and simple. Neat, right? For this, you don't have to have an enterprise environment with WSUS, or Windows Server, but since this is Sysadmins of the North, I assume you do. In this post I show you how to install Windows Updates with PowerShell and the PSWindowsUpdate module.

Extract files from an MSI package

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Windows has the ability to allow the MSI package (.msi file) contents to be extracted using the command line or via a script. I keep forgetting the correct msiexec.exe syntax to use to extract files from an .msi file (MSI package), so here is a short post with the command.