Windows Updates available

[MistaMule]

Hi Glenn,
I’m running Windows 8.1 and Windows Updates are downloaded automatically. To find out if there are any to install I press Charms, Setting, Power.
Is there any way to get DTI to display this via a WMI or REGISRTY call?

MM

[GlennKeymaster]

we can get a list of available Windows updates like this:

WMI=active:2,interval:60,text:Updates,namespace:root\cimv2,query:win32_quickfixengineering,display:%HotfixId%

there’s no way to get a count at the moment. I might add that to the to-do list.

Alternatively, we could try for a single message using conditional visibility:

WMI=active:2,interval:60,text:Updates,namespace:root\cimv2,query:win32_quickfixengineering,display:%HotfixId%,set:updates,hidden:1
IF=active:2,interval:60,value1:%updates%,value2:<n/a>,comparator:ne
TEXT=active:2,interval:60,text:Updates,display:Updates Available

[MistaMule]

Thanks Glenn. I’ll give them a try and let you know what happens.
MM

[MistaMule]

Hi Glenn,
I modified your script to test if InstalledOn field is blank but I don’ have any pending updates to test it. I’ll let you know what happens.

I output your script to a csv file. It listed 315 updates, each record having 11 fields.
However the first line (the Header record) had 3466 fields! (315 x 11 +1 ).
When I first tried to put this file into OpenOffice it complained about too many fields.
Regards,
MM

[GlennKeymaster]

seems to be duplicating the header records. i’ll raise a bug report.

[MistaMule]

The WMI query didn’t work as I hoped. Back to the drawing board!
Thanks for fixing the duplicated header records.
Regards,
MM

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