Powershell Automated Windows Updater Script only Security Updates & Rollup ...

I came across for the need to automating updates and filtering by Security & Monthly Rollup only using a PowerShell Script ;

This needs to be run as admin and does not require any module to be run;

It has been tested on windows Server 20012

# To create the searcher we use new Object , we store the returned Searcher #object in the $Searcher variable

$Searcher = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Searcher

#Create the session with MS update

$Session = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session

#UpdateCollection Object to Store Windows updates ID based on our criteria

$UpdateCollection = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.UpdateColl

# To install a software Update we need to search for the updated and add it to #the collection , download & install . we canuse Update Identity to easy #retrieve UpdateID

$results = $searcher.search("Type='software' AND IsInstalled = 0")

#$Results.Updates |

#ForEach-Object { $_.Identity.UpdateID ; "`t" + $_.Title }

#We Explore the results from object the previous Searcher and we define title #needs to be Security or Rollup!

$Results.Updates |

ForEach-Object{

if (($_.Title -like '*Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server*') -or ($_.Title -like '*Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server*'))

{

#echo "yes, found "

echo $_.Title

#echo $_.Identity.UpdateID

#Variable to Store identity of the Update ID

$updateID= $_.Identity.UpdateID

#Redefine Result with the wanted UPDATE ID

$Result = $Searcher.Search("UpdateID='$updateID'")

$Updates = $Result.updates

#We do Add to the Update collection

$UpdateCollection.Add($Updates.Item(0)) | out-null

# Creating the Downloader

$Downloader = $Session.CreateUpdateDownloader()

#Passing the collection to the downloader

$Downloader.Updates = $UpdateCollection

#Downloading Updates

$Downloader.Download()

# Creating The object Installer

$Installer = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Installer

#Passing the Installer to the update collection

$Installer.Updates = $UpdateCollection

#Installing the Updates

$Installer.Install()

}

}