Command Line To Kick Off Downloaded Updates?

I'm looking for a command line executable to trigger the installation of
updates downloaded by the automatic updates client. Not something to change
the time of installation, but something to actually kick off installing them.

I need to be able to kick off these updates for "farms" of servers but at
very specific (and different) times that I choose. I don't want to have to
logon to each server of the farm and click install now since this can be very
time consuming and time consuming at wee hours of the morning isn't always a
good thing!

There is no record of each individual update after they have been
downloaded.

Each update is under
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\{######## ########}\update.
The bad thing of this is that Windows does not clean out the Download Folder
after a successful installation.

So you may end up running the update.exe from the update folder of something
that has already been installed.

Additionally, sometimes MU, downloads into a SID folder under Download and
installs from there (S-1-15-#).

"Norb" <> wrote in message
news:F17CB6B0-C3EB-4940-BC0C-...
> I'm looking for a command line executable to trigger the installation of
> updates downloaded by the automatic updates client. Not something to
change
> the time of installation, but something to actually kick off installing
them.
>
> I need to be able to kick off these updates for "farms" of servers but at
> very specific (and different) times that I choose. I don't want to have
to
> logon to each server of the farm and click install now since this can be
very
> time consuming and time consuming at wee hours of the morning isn't always
a
> good thing!

What about a command line direct to the Windows Update service running on the
machine to tell it to begin installation of downloaded updates?

"NewScience" wrote:

> There is no record of each individual update after they have been
> downloaded.
>
> Each update is under
> C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\{######## ########}\update.
> The bad thing of this is that Windows does not clean out the Download Folder
> after a successful installation.
>
> So you may end up running the update.exe from the update folder of something
> that has already been installed.
>
> Additionally, sometimes MU, downloads into a SID folder under Download and
> installs from there (S-1-15-#).
>
> "Norb" <> wrote in message
> news:F17CB6B0-C3EB-4940-BC0C-...
> > I'm looking for a command line executable to trigger the installation of
> > updates downloaded by the automatic updates client. Not something to
> change
> > the time of installation, but something to actually kick off installing
> them.
> >
> > I need to be able to kick off these updates for "farms" of servers but at
> > very specific (and different) times that I choose. I don't want to have
> to
> > logon to each server of the farm and click install now since this can be
> very
> > time consuming and time consuming at wee hours of the morning isn't always
> a
> > good thing!
>
>
>

"NewScience" <> schrieb:

> Each update is under
> C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\{######## ########}\update.
> The bad thing of this is that Windows does not clean out the Download Folder
> after a successful installation.

The folder(s) *will* be cleaned out ten days after beeing downloaded into
there via BITS (AU/WU/MU) *automatically*.

Bye,
Freudi