Winupdates.ps1 is used to automate Windows Updates installations on remote machines and schedules an out of hours reboot. REQUIREMENTS: - Place the script in c:\winupdates on the central server, e.g wsus - Must have the pswindowsupdates module in the winupdates folder - Must have the scripts folder, this contains .bat files used in the overnight reboot of target servers - Must have .xml files to generate the scheduled tasks to reboot target servers. "reboot" task runs scripts/reboot.bat and "disablereboot" runs scripts/disablereboot.bat HOW TO RUN: - Create a scheduled task to run Winupdates.ps1 "textfilewithservers.txt" for example powershell.exe -file C:\winupdates\winupdates1.ps1 "serverlist1.txt" - set the time preferably after 5, this minimises user impact but give enough time for updates to finish before scheduled reboot - Use the serverlist textfiles to specify the target servers. You can add different scheduled tasks on different days to update many servers, just change the textfile as a parameter with each sched task - Alternatively open up a powershell window and manually run if you want to see job statuses The scheduled reboot was written to occur at midnight. (It initiates at 11:45 and reboots in 15 minutes giving users warning. If you want to change the reboot time you must go into reboot.xml and change the time in the <startboundary> tags, keep in mind the reboot will occur 15 minutes after the time set. HOW IT WORKS: The script will create jobs to update each server in the serverlist text file. Each job does the following: - winupdates.ps1 imports the PSWindowsUpdate module and the "Scripts" folder to the target servers C: drive. The Scripts folder contains the batch files used in the scheduled reboot - It also imports the scheduled tasks through the xml files. "Reboot" task is disabled by default on import - The PSWindowsUpdates module is used to get windows updates on the target server and then enables the "reboot" scheduled task to reboot at midnight. - the reboot task simply runs reboot.bat which schedules a reboot in 15 minutes and warns users to save/logoff - When the host restarts, the other scheduled task "disablereboot" runs on startup, this runs disablereboot.bat which disables "reboot" task (to stop the host restarting every day) - when a server updates, it will store an output log at c$\winupdates\logs (on the server you schedule the script from)