PS Windows Update History question

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Andrew Gresbach

• August 20, 2021 20:20

we've been using the PS Get Windows Update History scanner for a bit now and works great on Win 10 1909.  However if i try the same scanner on 2004 or 20H2 it spins for quite a while and doesnt seem to work.  any known issues w/ newer builds maybe?

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  Andrew Gresbach

  • August 20, 2021 20:27

  actually i'm seeing a lot of reports w/ this same issue  since the 2004 build....if you run it local it starts to populate results but then hangs.....workaround is to add:  -last 100 to the command and seems to work

   

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  Colby Bouma

  • August 23, 2021 22:42

  Thank you for the suggested fix. I opened a pull request to add it to the scanner: https://github.com/pdq/PowerShell-Scanners/pull/78

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  Andrew Gresbach

  • August 26, 2021 18:50

  no problem! i've tried w/ anywhere from 100 to 500 as values and all work (i'm sure others should too)

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  Andrew Gresbach

  • September 02, 2021 03:21
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  one more thing on this.....while this scanner works well for a history,  wondering how we could add a powershell scanner to JUST show the installed KB's instead (successfully installed ones that is).  I found this simple powershell command on a site that works great running local but cant quite get it to work well in PDQ (output is gibberish) so i'm sure its just my lack of experience translating it over

  Get-HotFix 

  I did actually get that to show some useful data but also pulls in way more into pdq than it does just running in PS but maybe i can just ignore that

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  Colby Bouma

  • September 02, 2021 03:49

  PowerShell formats objects in the terminal. Inventory doesn't know how to read that format data, so it returns the entire object. You can see what Inventory will see by piping your output to Out-GridView. To filter the result, you can use Select-Object.

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  Andrew Gresbach

  • September 02, 2021 03:53

  All good! That's what I figured was going on.....I messed with it a bit more and it gives the fields I needed so I was able to build a collection based on it great. Thanks for the reply

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