Server Core can be configured via group policy to utilize your Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) environment. The problem is this. The server core will reboot. Unlike the GUI versions of Windows, you cannot receive little popup windows asking you to reboot the computer to complete the update installation. Server Core will reboot. To get around this will require you to manually update the server. To do this, you will need to download the .MSU files for the patches and install them using Windows Update Stand-alone Installed (Wusa.exe). In particular, you will want to add the /quite and the /norestart switches to the command line. This will prevent Server Core from reboot until you have installed all your updates and perform the reboot manually. Instructions for this procedure are in the link below.
As I'm writing this article, I'm also writing a customization for a PowerShell course I'm teaching next week in Phoenix. This customization deals with Group Policy and PowerShell. For those of you who attend my classes may already know this, but I sit their and try to ask the questions to myself that others may ask as I present the material. I finished up my customization a few hours ago and then I realized that I did not add in how to put a comment on a GPO. This is a feature that many Group Policy Administrators may not be aware of. This past summer I attended a presentation at TechEd on Group Policy. One organization in the crowd had over 5,000 Group Policies. In an environment like that, the comment section can be priceless. I always like to write in the comment section why I created the policy so I know its purpose next week after I've completed 50 other tasks and can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago. In the Group Policy module for PowerShell V3, th
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