Saturday, December 13, 2014

Check for updates

 

Going through the Installed Updates list to check for a specific update that might or might not mess things up can be tedious using appwiz.cpl

Introduced in Powershell version 4 we have a new cmdlet for this purpose that come in handy.

Show list of all installed hotfixes
/> get-hotfix

Show if a specific update is installed:
/>get-hotfix -id "kb2843630"

 

References:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849836.aspx – syntax

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