Update check only

[kseDoC]

Hi all,

Hope I post this in the right group.

I am looking for a way to check it there are any updates to do. Is there a way that you can have wsus offline do a check first and list all updates it has for a machine instead of installing the updates. I use the doupdate.cmd now on several computers and works very well. But I like to know what is planned before I start the updates. I don't want to use an other tool if possible.

a command line switch would be best for me but I could not find one so far (hope I did not miss it). Output to log file and exit code would make me

Hope it is there already and I just missed it.

[Dalai]

There's no such feature in WSUS Offline. You can use wsusoffline\client\cmd\ListMissingUpdateIds.vbs script to generate a file called MissingUpdateIds.txt in your %TEMP% directory, although I'm not sure if that file will contain KB numbers or update IDs (GUIDs). Please note that you may need to copy wsusoffline\client\wsus\wsusscn2.cab to %TEMP% directory before running the script.

Regards
Dalai