Updating Powershell on Clients on network

[dazza007]

I am looking at updating powershell on all our clients onsite. I know that there is a manual KB for Windows Management Framework v4 that will update powershell to version 4 on all clients.

What i would like to know is how to push this out easily onsite. My google skills cannot answer this one!

My initial thoughts were to use WSUS however I can't seem to find the update so my next delivery method is SCCM......... any advice greatly appreciated on how to do this.

[halbaradkenafin]

You should be able to push it out like a normal package but with something like this as the command line:

 

wusa.exe Windows6.1-KB2819745-x86-MultiPkg.msu /quiet /norestart

 

I've got it set to deploy to our test group using that and it should be working, haven't had a chance to double check it yet as I only set that away earlier this week and other stuff has come up.

[dazza007]

Thanks! My afternoon googling skills improved dramatically!!!!

You can put the package into SCCM and deploy it using scrip using the command line above?

There is a registry key set at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine\Powershell Version (4) to show it is installed

[sted]

for what its worth heres my batch script to install it ( i run it as a shutdown script as it requires a reboot to work)

 

rem @echo OFF
REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine" /f 4.0
IF %errorlevel%==1 GOTO INSTALLWMF
IF %errorlevel%==0 GOTO EXIT
:INSTALLWMF
wusa.exe "\\server\packages$\ms msi\powershell4\Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu" /quiet /norestart
:EXIT
pause
Exit

obviously if you do add it take out the pause thats just for testing