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Hi All,

You know how in Win 2008 in Windows Updates you can go into ‘Change Settings’ to see which day a server will install updates and at what time ie if set by GPO. Does anyone know how to see this same option within Server 2012R2? Would be handy for quickly checking that a server has got the correct settings in place etc.

Ta,

Sam

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Enabling a more predictable Windows Update experience for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (KB 2885694)

The (GPO) setting you are looking for is under:

Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Configure Automatic Updates

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Thanks, We’ve already got the GPO in place to configure this but I’m looking more to get the GUI to display this, do you know if there is a way to do this?

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No standalone client that I know of. Most of our site deployments include WSUS , which has its own GUI that includes those kind of reports.

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Yeah we’re using WSUS and can get the info there, sometimes though its useful to be able to quickly glance on the server and see what settings it has.

Oh well!

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One tool that you might be able to customize to show the settings (not the status) on the desktop is BgInfo .

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Yeah we use BGInfo for displaying other information already, haven’t thought about trying to get windows updates information on there. Will see if its possible!

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You should see it in the same place. I just check on a 2012 R2 machine and it’s here:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update\Change settings

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Hmmm can you send me a quick screenie? All I see are options to install automatically etc. but option options to set when this is done a la 2008

Thanks,

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Ah, sorry, I didn’t understand what you meant. I thought you weren’t finding that screen at all. You are correct that when you go there you do not see a time / date for install.

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Doh! You had my hopes up then lol. wonder why they took this out?

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@robdunn are you aware of any Powershell magic that will show this information?

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Not natively it seems, but here’s a script that can get you the information you’re looking for by parsing some registry information:

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Thanks! Will take a look!