Log File of Updates

[Dennis]

Does WSUS Log what it installs anywhere on the local workstation it runs on? Or is there away to enable logging?

[aker]

%SystemRoot%\wsusofflineupdate.log
e.g. C:\Windows\wsusofflineupdate.log

[Dennis]

Aker,

Thank you my friend. Addtional question, is there away to have the software write that log file to another location, such as a network path

For example
\\wsus\logs\%computername%\UpdateLog%date%.log

I assume I can affix a copy line to the end of the batch I create for scheduled tasks that would achieve the same result

xcopy C:\Windows\wsusofflineupdate.log \\wsus\logs\%computername%\UpdateLog%date%.log or something to the effect...

I sort of just answered my own question I suppose, but is there away to just have the system do it?

[aker]

The command prompt has some problems with UNC paths, but I'm not sure, if this affects logging to a file. If you mount you network path as network drive, you can create a custom initialization hook, which runs

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set UPDATE_LOGFILE=<your path>