Automated Installs / Command Line

[byarotsky]

I have been using the Offline Updater for many years. Great product, it has saved me piles of time and bandwidth. I operate a small computer shop and every computer that comes in get the offline updater run on it. I would like to automate the process even further to allow this tool to complete without pressing any buttons. This may have already been discussed but I am not able to fine much information in the forum (may be written in German).

Are there any options to allow the automating of the install of the updates? Either through command line switches or any other type of mechanism. Ideally I would like to have the same type of options as the GUI in that it installs the updates as selected from the ini file including the essential tools. And once it has completed the round of updates it can restart the process to complete more or reboot and then start again. I understand that there may be some magic to make the computer log in to the file share again, but I can handle that part.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Brad
Canada

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2691.

Regards,
T. Wittrock

[byarotsky]

Perfect. Thank you for your response. Are there any options for installation of the specific essential items (Windows Live Mail)?


Brad

[aker]

Please take a look at .\client\UpdateInstaller.ini. There you can select specific parts of Windows Essentials.

[eseelke]

Is there a way to run this via command line and from a UNC share?

[aker]

You can mount the network drive using

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net use Z: \\<your UNC-path> /persist:no

. Remeber to mount it in the same script, which runs wsusou.