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So the update installation works without any user interaction, the process can be completely unattended.

This works only when if WuInstall is called by an administrator or a power user account.

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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.

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This option creates a ANSI-logfile. Must It 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 before the timer expires) with exit code 12. It exits at any case, no matter how far the execution of WuInstall is.

For example, with /maxruntime 5, WuInstall exits after 5 minutes displaying

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This option is intended for machines, where downloads take a lot of time, or machines, which hang for some reason, to avoid prevent WuInstall from running endlessly long.

Use this option with caution, especially when using the /use_wsus or /bypass_wsus options!

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This feature is not recommended for the productive use of WuInstall!

/offline

This options makes STOPS WuInstall NOT from connecting to the WSUS Server, or Microsoft Update site when searching updates, instead . Instead it searches offline.

This option is quite useful for searching already installed updates. The criteria "IsInstalled=1" and the /uninstall option automatically trigger an offline search.

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The update-installer is forced to do an installation without user interaction.

/disableprompt

Disable Disables showing source prompts to a user when installing the updates.

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This can be used to update computers, which don't 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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This option executes WuInstall on a remote machine using PAExec. The hostname a and 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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