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This works only when WuInstall is called by an Administrator administrator or a power user account.
/logfile file-to-log
This options option logs the console output of WuInstall to the specified logfile log file (each output line also contains the current timestamp).
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The option /logfile_append is similar to /logfile with the difference that the entries are appended at the end of the specified file, instead of creating a new file.
/log_as_ansi
This options option creates a ANSI-logfile. Must be combined with /logfile or /log_append.
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This option starts a timer with the specified number of minutes at the start of WuInstall and exits WuInstall (if it is not finished until before the timer expires) with exit code 12. It exits at any case, no matter how far the execution WuInstall is.
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Suppresses any console output (logfile log file option is still working).
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/disable_ie_firstruncustomize
Disables the internet explorer Internet Explorer 8 set up dialog.
/targetgroup "targetgroup"
One of the nice things about WSUS is that it allows you to use client side targeting. The idea behind client side targeting is that you can set up different computer groups, and you can roll out updates on a group basis. Client side targeting isn’t used by default, but if you decide to use it, you can use this option to assign the computer to a targetgrouptarget group.
/offlinescan "scanfile"
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The .cab file must be on a local directory, a UNC path won't work. We suggest to copy copying the .cab file into a local directory before executing WuInstall.
This can be used to update computers, which have no access to a WSUS or to the internet. Therefore you have to combine it with the /install_cache option. First all updates have to be downloaded to the cache directory.
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/options [file://]|[http://]path
This options allowes allows it to specify the options in a file which is either on the disk (use file://) or available on the internet (use http://).
In the options-file each option have to be in a seperate separate line.
/tempdir "path"
Use this option to set the temp directory to the given path. By default the temp directory is set to %temp%.
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This option executes WuInstall on a remote machine using PAExec. The hostename an hostname a login credentials have to be specified in the argument ("\\hostename -u user -p password"). All other WuInstall options can be specified as usual.
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This option adds additional output, each . Each line will start and end with the given tag. This makes it easier to parse the output.
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/UseUpdateService MicrosoftUpdate|WindowsUpdate|WSUS|Default
This options option sets the specified service which will be used for searching for updates.
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