Randomize Windows Updates via PowerShell and PSWindowsUpdate

If you manage a group of computers that have fallen behind on installing Windows Updates, this procedure and a few PowerShell tools may help you less-disruptively install a just a few randomized updates at a time when computers are idle. Objective Many of the computers in my environment are used 24/7 by rotating shifts of …

WSUS Update Classifications

For some reason, I have a difficult time finding the brief descriptions of the nine update classifications that you can use to filter the updates you get from Microsoft Updates, so I thought I’d list them here. The source is Microsoft’s “Using the WSUS 3.0 SP2 Configuration Wizard” TechNet article: Critical Updates: Broadly released fixes …