windows-update

Install Windows Updates using PowerShell

You can use PowerShell to install Windows Updates automatically, unattended and simple. Neat, right? For this, you don't have to have an enterprise environment with WSUS, or Windows Server, but since this is Sysadmins of the North, I assume you do. In this post I'm show you how to install Windows Updates with PowerShell and the PSWindowsUpdate module.

Install SQL Server cumulative updates silently

Installing SQL Server cumulative updates is always a cumbersome, and quite daunting task. Unpacking and running the CU installer is a slow process, you have to click through a lot of screens, and it's hard to get it to install silently. But here is how!

Remove computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in PowerShell

Here is a short PowerShell snippet for you to remove a computer object from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Force BITS to download WSUS updates in the foreground in Windows Server

WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode. Unfortunately, this utilizes remaining bandwidth of the server instead of its full capacity. To speed up WSUS downloads, you can configure BITS in WSUS to use foreground priority.

Install Windows Server Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) using PowerShell

Install Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) for Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2019 using PowerShell, without downtime

Manually failover all databases in an SQL Server Database Mirroring configuration

A manual SQL Server failover can only be initiated from the principal server, and the mirrored database must be synchronized (that is, when the database is in the SYNCHRONIZED state). In this article I will show you how to manual failover mirrored SQL Server databases using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) in SQL Server 2017 and up.

WsusPool keeps crashing: stops again and again

WSUSPool keeps stopping? Sometimes you find your WSUS server keeps crashing over and over again. The WSUS application pool periodically stops, WSUS is unavailable and/or the WSUS management console hangs.

Windows Update error 0xc1420127 and 0xc190010b when upgrading Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

After downloading the Windows 10 update through Windows Update, Windows Update returned errors `0xc1420127` and `0xc190010b`, even after using the Windows 10 media creation tool
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