Comments on: How to apply WSUS updates to a Windows Server 2008 Core machine

By: Lewis Wells

Lewis Wells — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:30:15 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this script! I really do wish my company had gone with VMware rather than the idiocy of Hyper-V

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:24:33 +0000

Thank you very much for the link to a useful script. Worked like a charm.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:50:32 +0000

Thanks this was very helpful!

By: Jim Blomgren

Jim Blomgren — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:04:12 +0000

I am having the same trouble as Tim with my Server Core 2008 machine and KB953631. What is the fix?

By: MikeDees

MikeDees — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:59:48 +0000

Thanks Guillermo. You are the man.

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:08 +0000

I wrote a FREE application to manage Windows 2008 Core servers. This application includes a module to show updates available and install selected updates. You can set Automatic Updates and select the day/hour or Turn Off Automatic Updates.
Visual Core Configurator 2008 is available to download at http://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000

So I’m using the vbs script to do updates on my core server (I don’t have a WSUS server running and don’t like to run fully auto on servers), and it is awesome. The one thing I noticed though is that no matter how many times I run it there are always 2 updates it says I need. One is KB953631 I believe, the other is the Malicious Software Tool for the current month. I can keep running the update script and it says it needs to be installed everytime. I setup another core VM to test it out, and it does the same thing, so I don’t think it is the system unless it is a VM only problem. Anyone know a way to install these properly or at least get it to stop detecting them? Also, if I set it to full auto updating, does that mean it will try to install those 2 updates every night?

By: The things that are better left unspoken : (Manually) Updating Server Core

The things that are better left unspoken : (Manually) Updating Server Core — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:45:39 +0000

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:16:28 +0000

Haha – is Alicea your girlfriend? When I blogged I got the same kind of responses from my girlfriend.

Thanks for the great post – I thought I wasn’t getting updates on my lab’s Core installs, but the GPO settings were working after all. I kept the script anyway, because it’s good.

Later.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:17:22 +0000

You could also run a fully managed dedicated server and not have to worry about such updates. We run a server from Server Intellect and they handle all the updates for us. Even run malware scans. I know a lot of people like to the work themselves but not let someone else sweat the small stuff so you can work on the hard problems=)

By: Tales from the Datacenter » Blog Archive » Updating Windows Server 2008 Core

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:05:24 +0000

[...] So, naturally, a Google marathon has ensued all morning. I read blog after blog after Microsoft KB. One blog appeared as my shining light in the darkness: Nathan’s Daily Grind – more specifically, this post: How to apply WSUS updates to a Windows Server 2008 Core machine. [...]

By: Alicea

Alicea — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:46:03 +0000

You are such a geek.
But I love you anyway.