Automating WSUS 3.0 server with Powershell on Win 2k8r2

It was supposed to be easy... EASY!!!!

...this ended up being the first line that actually did anything relevant... obviously not fucking easy.

[reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration")

So this project started as usual, with a false hopes and unkept promises

PS C:\chef> Add-WindowsFeature OOB-WSUS

WARNING: Installation of 'Windows Server Update Services' is not supported on the command line. Skipping...

Oh Come on!!!!

So Step 1 - Install Pre - Reqs

"web-server", "Web-Asp-Net", "Web-Windows-Auth", "Web-Metabase", "File-Services" | foreach {if (!(Get-WindowsFeature $_)){add-windowsfeature $_}}

Step 2 - download / contribute to my Chef cookbook which will do it all for you

https://github.com/vinyar/wsus

The thing you probably really care about the most is here:

https://github.com/vinyar/wsus/blob/master/recipes/configure_wsus.rb