How To Check Windows Update History

Daniele_Purrone — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:41:45 GMT

Confirming Windows update history can be an important part of root cause analysis when issues suddenly appear to deployment without any updates or changes to deployed software.
Below steps describe how to collect Windows Update history through Powershell, either from the local machine or from a remote server.

Collect from the local machine

Open PowerShell terminal

Change location to user's desktop

Set-Location "$env:HOMEDRIVE$env:HOMEPATH\Desktop"

Save Windows Hotfix history to file

get-wmiobject -class win32_quickfixengineering > ".\WindowsHotFixHistory-$(get-date -Format yyyyMMddhhmmss).txt"

Collect files from Desktop in Windows' File Explorer
Attach files to open Qlik support case for further investigation
Repeat steps 1-6 on all nodes in the deployment

Collect from a remote server

Open PowerShell terminal

Change location to user's desktop

Set-Location "$env:HOMEDRIVE$env:HOMEPATH\Desktop"

Save Windows Hotfix history to file. Replace server.domain.local with the actual server hostname

get-wmiobject -class win32_quickfixengineering  -computername server.domain.local > ".\WindowsHotFixHistory-$(get-date -Format yyyyMMddhhmmss).txt"

Repeat steps 3 for all nodes in the deployment
Collect files from Desktop in Windows' File Explorer
Check/post on the Qlik Community searching for solutions, and if none found attach files to an open Qlik support case for further investigation

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How To Check Windows Update History