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How to enable Automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core?
In my previous post about Windows Server Core, I wrote how to change the IP address of server running Windows Server Core. In this post I’m going to describe the process of enabling automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core. The whole process is quite simple, you have few commands to enable/disable automatic, install an update, detect and install updates and to see which updates are installed.
First, we gonna enable automatic updates in WS Core:
scregedit /au 4
If you wan’t to disable automatic updates, use the following command:
scregedit /au 1
As you can see, number 4 enables automatic updates, number 1 disables them. This could be little bit confusing, and maybe stupid (more obvious would be 1 for enable, 0 for disable), but that’s how it’s done, and you have to remember 4 and 1.
If you have an update, you can install it using the following command:
wusa patchname.msu /quiet
If you wan’t to detech and install updates now, do this:
wuauclt /detectnow
To see which updates are installed, type
systeminfo
By Ilija Brajkovic | March 19, 2009
Tags: core, security, tutorial, windows server 2008
Category: server core | Comments
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