script needed to kick start WSUS clients

[projector1]

anybody able to knock up a vbscript that will

 

 

Stop Automatic Update Service

delete "%Windir%\SoftwareDistribution" folder.

delete "%Windir%\windowsUpdate text file

Start Automatic Update Service

reboot system

 

 

(all clients xp pro, windows installed on C drive)

cheers

Edited March 12, 2008 by projector1

[tosca925]

Drop this in a vbscript and put in in the Computer Section of a GPO that contaisn the computers in question. It forces the pc to check for updates and then leaves a marker in the reg, the next time the pc starts again it will check for the marker and not do the update.

 

 

 

 

'--------------------8<----------------------

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

 

sRegKey = "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate"

 

' suppress error in case values does not exist

On Error Resume Next

 

' check for marker

sIDDeleted = oShell.RegRead( sRegKey & "\IDDeleted")

 

' to be sure values is only deleted once, test on marker

If sIDDeleted <> "yes" Then

' delete values

oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & "\AccountDomainSid"

oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & "\PingID"

oShell.RegDelete sRegKey & "\SusClientId"

 

' Stop and start the Automatic updates service

oShell.Run "%SystemRoot%\system32\net.exe stop wuauserv", 0, True

oShell.Run "%SystemRoot%\system32\net.exe start wuauserv", 0, True

 

' Run wuauclt.exe with resetauthorization

sCmd = "%SystemRoot%\system32\wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow"

oShell.Run sCmd, 0, True

 

' create marker

oShell.RegWrite sRegKey & "\IDDeleted", "yes"

End If

'--------------------8<----------------------

[ICT_GUY]

CCleaner does a very good job of getting rid of junk files including windows update crud, and I am pretty sure it can be run from a command line with

"%ProgramFiles%\CCleaner\ccleaner.exe" /AUTO

 

Not that relevant but ccleaner does a damn good job of cleaning up the detritus that xp leaves scattered around your hard drive and its free. (very good for pre ghost images too)

[projector1]

thanks for the reply

sorry forgot to add, i need this as 90% of the clients are updating.

 

The others are reporting error Error 0x80004002 in the windowsupdate.txt file.

 

I manually carried out the steps mentioned above and it worked. I would like to simplify the task with a script!