Installing pening updated from the command line?

[dbrb2]

When a W7 machine has pending updates, I can install them by choosing the "install updates and shut down" from the desktop

However, if I call "shutdown /t 0" from the command line of the same machine, the updates are not installed - the machine justs shuts down
Is there a way to shutdown and install updates from the command line in a W7 machine?

 

[ChrisHirst]

No.




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[dbrb2]

Damn. That sounds like a right pain. I wonder if it is oversight or by design...
I'm not sure why I would want to shut the machine down without installing the updates most of the time, so surprised the default seems to be the other way around

Oh well...

 

[Nelviticus]

You could bake your own version - use

start /wait %windir%\system32\wuauclt.exe /detectnow /updatenow

to invoke Windows Update from the command line, then when that's finished run the shutdown command.

I haven't tried this so don't know whether Windows Update would be in interactive mode. You might be able to leave out the /detectnow parameter. This Technet page lists some wuauclt.exe parameters that work on Windows 7, even though the page is about Server 2003.

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