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UpdateServicesDsc

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The UpdateServicesDsc module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Windows Server Update Services.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted this code of conduct.

Support

This module is community maintained as a best-effort open source project and has no expressed support from any individual or organization.

Releases

For each merge to the branch master a preview release will be deployed to PowerShell Gallery. Periodically a release version tag will be pushed which will deploy a full release to PowerShell Gallery.

Contributing

Please check out common DSC Community contributing guidelines.

Installation

From GitHub source code

To manually install the module, download the source code from GitHub and unzip the contents to the '$env:ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules' folder.

From PowerShell Gallery

To install from the PowerShell gallery using PowerShellGet (in PowerShell 5.0) run the following command:

Find-Module -Name UpdateServicesDsc | Install-Module

To confirm installation, run the below command and ensure you see the SQL Server DSC resources available:

Get-DscResource -Module UpdateServicesDsc

Requirements

The minimum Windows Management Framework (PowerShell) version required is 5.0 or higher, which ships with Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, but can also be installed on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

Details

UpdateServicesApprovalRule resource has following properties

  • Ensure: An enumerated value that describes if the ApprovalRule is available
  • Name: Name of the approval rule.
  • Classifications: Classifications in the approval rule.
  • Products: Products in the approval rule.
  • ComputerGroups: Computer groups the approval rule applies to.
  • Enabled: Whether the approval rule is enabled.
  • Synchronize: Synchronize after creating or updating the approval rule.

UpdateServicesCleanup resource has following properties:

  • Ensure: An enumerated value that describes if the WSUS cleanup task exists.
  • DeclineSupersededUpdates: Decline updates that have not been approved for 30 days or more, are not currently needed by any clients, and are superseded by an approved update.
  • DeclineExpiredUpdates: Decline updates that aren't approved and have been expired by Microsoft.
  • CleanupObsoleteUpdates: Delete updates that are expired and have not been approved for 30 days or more, and delete older update revisions that have not been approved for 30 days or more.
  • CompressUpdates: Compress updates.
  • CleanupObsoleteComputers: Delete computers that have not contacted the server in 30 days or more.
  • CleanupUnneededContentFiles: Delete update files that aren't needed by updates or downstream servers.
  • CleanupLocalPublishedContentFiles: Cleanup local published content files.
  • TimeOfDay Time of day to start cleanup.

UpdateServicesServer resource has following properties:

  • Ensure: An enumerated value that describes if WSUS is configured.
  • SetupCredential: Credential to be used to perform the initial configuration.
  • SQLServer: SQL Server for the WSUS database, omit for Windows Internal Database.
  • ContentDir: Folder for WSUS update files.
  • UpdateImprovementProgram: Join the Microsoft Update Improvement Program.
  • UpstreamServerName: Upstream WSUS server, omit for Microsoft Update. Set to 'IGNORE' to prevent changes being made, for example in a SCCM environment
  • UpstreamServerPort: Port of upstream WSUS server.
  • UpstreamServerSSL: Use SSL with upstream WSUS server.
  • UpstreamServerReplica: Replica of upstream WSUS server.
  • ProxyServerName: Proxy server to use when synchronizing, omit for no proxy.
  • ProxyServerPort: Proxy server port.
  • ProxyServerCredential: Proxy server credential, omit for anonymous.
  • ProxyServerCredentialUsername: Proxy server credential username.
  • ProxyServerBasicAuthentication: Allow proxy server basic authentication.
  • Languages: Update languages, * for all.
  • Products: Update products, * for all.
  • Classifications: Update classifications, * for all.
  • SynchronizeAutomatically: Synchronize automatically.
  • SynchronizeAutomaticallyTimeOfDay: First synchronization.
  • SynchronizationsPerDay: Synchronizations per day.
  • Synchronize: Begin initial synchronization.
  • RunRuleNow: Run Approval Rule on existing content.
  • ClientTargetingMode: An enumerated value that describes if how the Target Groups are populated.

Versions

Plese refer to the Changelog