Number of important Windows Updates

automatic-updateswindows-server-2003windows-server-2008windows-update

For Microsoft Server OS's, is there a location in the registry or possibly WMI that stores the number of pending Important Updates?

My inventory software supports wmi and registry keys. Trying to see if there is a way to report that number so that I know remotely if there are updates either ready to be downloaded/installed. Searching for this gives a lot of out of scope information since ther are generic terms.

While I do use WSUS this information would be preferential to have centralized in my LanSweeper inventory system. Neglected to mention that I use WSUS yes. For WSUS to have this information I would gather that is it locally on my machine as well.

Best Answer

I am not sure if it is possible to find the number of pending important updates. But in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\UAS there is a Key called UpdateCount that will give you the total number of pending updates.

Related Topic