{"id":11,"date":"2012-01-31T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-01-31T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:28:00","slug":"how-to-kick-start-wsus-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/how-to-kick-start-wsus-check\/","title":{"rendered":"How to kick start WSUS check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So occasionally during our maintenance weekend tasks the server does not show any updates whereas I know there are updates available. Simply run this from Command Line to kick start the WSUS client to check on updates.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>[code]<br \/>\nnet stop wuauserv<br \/>\nREG DELETE &#8220;HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateAuto Update&#8221; \/v NextDetectionTime \/f<br \/>\nnet start wuauserv<br \/>\nwuauclt.exe \/detectnow<br \/>\n[\/code]<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Running this on Windows 7 and Server 2008, have tested on Server 2003<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So occasionally during our maintenance weekend tasks the server does not show any updates whereas I know there are updates available. Simply run this from Command Line to kick start the WSUS client to check on updates. [code] net stop wuauserv REG DELETE &#8220;HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateAuto Update&#8221; \/v NextDetectionTime \/f net start&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/how-to-kick-start-wsus-check\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,40,55],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","tag-command-prompt","tag-scripts","tag-wsus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bgeE-b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}