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Jarrod L. J. Gibson
Asked: 2021-01-06 13:23:59 +0800 CST

Powershell to run Windows Update commands on AD computers

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So my goal here is to run commands like get-adcomputer | Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -AutoReboot

I want to get all of my AD computers and pipe the ComputerName to the ComputerName property in Install-WindowsUpdate. I tried a @foreach statement but it takes forever to run because it does them one at a time. I'm looking for it to do multiple computers at once.

Any ideas?

powershell windows-update

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    So what I ended up doing was creating a computers variable from Get-ADcomputer. I piped a select statement to grab the property "Name" and that did the trick. I then plugged the variable into the command:

    $computer = Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=Computers,DC=my,DC=domain,DC=com" -Filter 'Name -like "*vdi*"' | Select -ExpandProperty name
Get-windowsupdate -ComputerName $computer -AcceptAll -Install -AutoReboot

    To make this work, you have to make sure all of the computers have PSWindowsUpdate installed, Enable-WURemoting and set-executionpolicy unrestricted, which i'm not thrilled about.

    Hope this helps others out there.

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