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Run Windows Updates with Powershell Remotely
Hi, I'm kind of new to Powershell, and trying to automate some stuff. I found one nice Powershell module named PSWindowsUpdate to manage Windows Updates. I need to create some automated updating for my servers, which are around 50. Everything runs fine locally, but I started to search on how to write a script to do it remotely, but from what I've read that has a lot of issues, due to permissions related to remote updating. I create a remote session with "Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <servername>. But when I run the command "Install-WindowsUpdate -KBArticleID <kbID> -AcceptAll -Install" I get this error: "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-WindowsUpdate], UnauthorizedAccessException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,PSWindowsUpdate.GetWindowsUpdate" I've been reading and understand that the problem is related to a permissions issue on powershell and remote updating. I've read some topics about it, and in some there a solution presented, which is JEA. So I've followed this code to run on the server side: " New-PSSessionConfigurationFile -RunAsVirtualAccount -Path .\VirtualAccount.pssc # Note this will restart the WinRM service: Register-PSSessionConfiguration -Name 'VirtualAccount' [-ShowSecurityDescriptorUI] -Path .\VirtualAccount.pssc -Force # Check the Permission property: Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name 'VirtualAccount' # Those users will have full unrestricted access to the system! But I got this error: "Register-PSSessionConfiguration : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '[-ShowSecurityDescriptorUI]'. At line:1 char:1 + Register-PSSessionConfiguration -Name 'VirtualAccount' [-ShowSecurity ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Register-PSSessionConfiguration], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RegisterPSSessionConfigurationCommand" So, my question is if everyone knows why do I get this error while registering the PSSessionConfiguration and also, if someone has any different solution for the topic. ThanksSolved112KViews0likes6Comments