<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I am fully happy with my Group Policies for my servers to automatically download patches but wait for a manual prompt to install. <br />
<br />
With a large scale server farm, I want to install these updates once a month only, and potentially have split schedules (i.e. One domain controller one week of the month, another a week later etc.) Of course Microsoft do not offer any facility beyond just once a week, scheduling between Monday to Sunday only. <br />
<br />
I want to be able to script a way of getting the WSUS updates to just apply and reboot unattended if required (note the &quot;Install Updates and Shutdown&quot; option is useless on servers as shutting down needs to be REBOOT!) <br />
<br />
I would then intend on scheduling via Scheduled Tasks. Has anyone done something like this before and is able to tell me what commands/scripts are required to just do the apply and reboot? Thanks
</div>
</div>


I am fully happy with my Group Policies for my servers to automatically download patches but wait for a manual prompt to install. 

With a large scale server farm, I want to install these updates once a month only, and potentially have split schedules (i.e. One domain controller one week of the month, another a week later etc.) Of course Microsoft do not offer any facility beyond just once a week, scheduling between Monday to Sunday only. 

I want to be able to script a way of getting the WSUS updates to just apply and reboot unattended if required (note the "Install Updates and Shutdown" option is useless on servers as shutting down needs to be REBOOT!) 

I would then intend on scheduling via Scheduled Tasks. Has anyone done something like this before and is able to tell me what commands/scripts are required to just do the apply and reboot? Thanks

WSUS - Client based script to perform updates once a month

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.

Windows Batch

VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an interpreted scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic, but with some important differences. VBScript is commonly used for automating administrative and other tasks in Windows operating systems (by means of the Windows Script Host) and for server-side scripting in ASP web applications. It is also used for client-side scripting in Internet Explorer, specifically in intranet web applications.