getting status of windows updates onto a readable document

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-WindowsUpdate-Retrieve-e53aea50


Full code is there, or just run

 get-windowsupdate | Export-csv c:\temp\WU.csv

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Reagrds

thanks, when i run get-windowsupdate, even with all the text, i get

The term 'get-windowsupdate' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Che
ck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:18
+ get-windowsupdate <<<<
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (get-windowsupdate:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Is it windows server 2008 or 2008R2?

If it's 2008

Function Get-MSHotfix 
{ 
    $outputs = Invoke-Expression "wmic qfe list" 
    $outputs = $outputs[1..($outputs.length)] 
     
     
    foreach ($output in $Outputs) { 
        if ($output) { 
            $output = $output -replace 'Security Update','Security-Update' 
            $output = $output -replace 'NT AUTHORITY','NT-AUTHORITY' 
            $output = $output -replace '\s+',' ' 
            $parts = $output -split ' '
            if ($parts[5] -like "*/*/*") { 
                $Dateis = [datetime]::ParseExact($parts[5], '%M/%d/yyyy',[Globalization.cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo("en-US").DateTimeFormat) 
            } else { 
                $Dateis = get-date([DateTime][Convert]::ToInt64("$parts[5]", 16)) -Format '%M/%d/yyyy' 
            } 
            New-Object -Type PSObject -Property @{ 
                KBArticle = [string]$parts[0] 
                Computername = [string]$parts[1] 
                Description = [string]$parts[2] 
                FixComments = [string]$parts[6] 
                HotFixID = [string]$parts[3] 
                InstalledOn = Get-Date($Dateis)-format "dddd d MMMM yyyy" 
                InstalledBy = [string]$parts[4] 
                InstallDate = [string]$parts[7] 
                Name = [string]$parts[8] 
                ServicePackInEffect = [string]$parts[9] 
                Status = [string]$parts[10] 
            } 
        } 
    } 
} 

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its 2008 r2

If it helps I just sourced this for you, 2008 r2 is supported for this script
Generate a Report for installed Hotfix-Update-ServicePack for Bulk Servers
[Version 3-04.08.14] Run that Script.
You will get a report(txt) for installed Hotfix for bulk Computers and get an additional txt output for unreachable computers.
Getting the Full Scripts you have to download the ZIP file.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Generate-a-Report-for-f71a6800

thanks merete

I did see this a few days ago and ran it. I've gone through the powershell and cannot see where it outputs to. I'm not a powershell expert. Any advice on what to do to get it to output to a file name / location ?

thanks for your help