Tag WSUS

Windows Server

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.

Jan Reilink
2023-03-15

Windows Server

Force BITS to download WSUS updates in the foreground in Windows Server

WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode. Unfortunately, this utilizes remaining bandwidth of the server instead of its full capacity. To speed up WSUS downloads, you can configure BITS in WSUS to use foreground priority.