Re: How to get a list of hotfixes?

"Mark Allison" <marka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1510275B-2666-4755-A36E-52D4F10B953B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi there,

I need a list of all security and critical updates that have been released
by Microsoft. I want to compare this list with my cluster nodes and make sure
that they are all fully patched. I am using the VBScript written by Richard
McDonald and just need to populate the text file with KB IDs.
http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/05/03/879029.aspx

Can anyone help?

You can use, of course, the online Windows Update web site to check whether they are patched properly.

However, applying all hotfixes probably is a very bad idea since hot fixes are not regression tested.

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