There is a Windows Update Agent API. The IUpdateInstaller interface
has an IsBusy property that seems to indicate that an update is in
progress. This fragment of C++ may be a start. It seems to work in the
sense that it tells me not busy :) but is otherwise untested.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <wuapi.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <ATLComTime.h>
#include <wuerror.h>
using namespace std;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
HRESULT hr;
hr = CoInitialize(NULL);
IUpdateSession* iUpdate;
IUpdateSearcher* searcher;
IUpdateInstaller* iInstaller;
ISearchResult* results;
BSTR criteria = SysAllocString(L"IsInstalled=1 or IsHidden=1 or
IsPresent=1");
hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_UpdateInstaller, NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IUpdateInstaller, (LPVOID*)&iInstaller);
VARIANT_BOOL Busy;
hr = iInstaller->get_IsBusy(&Busy);
etc....
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Phil Wilson
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:19 PM, TimM <timmay...@smarttech.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way we can detect if there are pending Windows Updates
> or currently running Windows Updates?We have seen this issue quite a lot
> where we have 32 bit assemblies within our installs that get installed and
> then published near the end of the install. But if there are pending Windows
> updates or running Windows Updates they seem to conflict with our Assembly
> publish stage and therefore our installs will fail with assembly 1935 errors
> or simple assembly sxs errors.When these occur we get customers to run our
> clean up tool, verify that all Windows updates have been applied and then to
> re-run our installs. Once this is done the install is successful.We want to
> try to prevent these errors and therefore if we can detect if there are
> Windows Updates or updates that are running then we can have the install
> inform the user to finish the Windows updates before launching the
> install.We have seen these issues too many times and would like to find a
> way to prevent these install errors.So if anyone has seen these types of
> issues, knows how to fix them, and/or knows how to detect pending Windows
> updates then please let me know.Thanks.
>
>
>
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