#35: WuInstall script to fully update Windows, new pseudo commands in todo.pl
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Reporter: oida | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: packages | Version: 4.8
Keywords: update, WSUS, todo.pl, rerun |
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The program WuInstall [http://www.wuinstall.com] can fully update a
windows computer from a WSUS or Windows Update, but to do this it often
needs to be started multiple times, sometimes with a reboot in between.
This is because of cascading or exclusive updates. The program signals
this with exit codes.
The attached script using this program REQUIRES the modification to
todo.pl (also attached) to add pseudo commands to rerun, or reboot and
rerun, the current command. (i.e: .rerun-on and .reboot-rerun-on)
The two commented out actions may be required in some environments, and so
I left them in to maybe spare someone the work of searching and
implementing these.
For instance, I found out that merely adding a computer to a domain does
not propagate the necessary WSUS group policies to this computer, and a
gpupdate is needed to fetch the settings. (Or maybe I'm doing something
wrong?)
The "wuauclt /reportnow" is for convenience for WSUS users only, and can
be commented out or removed. This updates the state of the computer in
WSUS immediately, which can take quite some time otherwise.
Note aside: You can actually modify the wuinstall.bat script to not use
the new commands, but that would require many calls to wuinstall.bat in a
row in your install script to rerun it enough times. This would neither be
nice to look at, nor will it guarantee to fully upgrade a computer.
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Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/ticket/35>
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This is a system for fully automating the installation of Windows 2000
Professional and Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
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