Windows – mailing list for upcoming Microsoft Windows Updates

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Is there a newsletter/mailing list of upcoming Windows Updates? I ask because there was a recent IE10 forced upgrade for Windows 7 users that affected the stability of an application we have. To avoid this potential problem in the future, I'd like to keep tabs on upcoming windows Update releases in the future.

I found this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/dd252948.aspx

But that seems specific to patches. Anything for general updates/releases (such as the IE10 upgrade)?

For clarification, this is not an internal tool, so blocking and/or managing updates is not an option.

Thanks!

Update: Moved from security

Best Answer

If you are having these issues you should look into potentially setting up a WSUS server so that you can control what updates get pushed to your clients. That way you can test all updates before releasing to your clients.

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Windows Active Directory – Command Line to List Users in a Group

try

dsget group "CN=GroupName,DC=domain,DC=name,DC=com" -members

Windows – Shorcut to list pending updates in Microsoft Windows

Give this Powershell script a try:

$update = new-object -com Microsoft.update.Session
$searcher = $update.CreateUpdateSearcher()
$pending = $searcher.Search("IsInstalled=0")
foreach($entry in $pending.Updates)
{
    Write-host "Title: " $entry.Title
    Write-host "Downloaded? " $entry.IsDownloaded
    Write-host "Description: " $entry.Description
    foreach($category in $entry.Categories)
    {
        Write-host "Category: " $category.Name
    }
    Write-host " "
}

Other object members you might be interested in can be view using:

$pending.Updates | member | more

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Windows Active Directory – Command Line to List Users in a Group

Windows – Shorcut to list pending updates in Microsoft Windows

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