Of course, you??™ll want to know which updates you have installed. After all, you want to be
sure that the server really does have the required updates. To check the list of current updates, type
WMIC QFE List
(where QFE stands for Quick Fix Engineering) and press Enter. When the server
has no updates installed, you??™ll see a message stating, ???No Instance(s) Available.???
Creating LNK Files
Up until now, you may have taken LNK (link) files for granted in Windows because they??™re exceptionally
easy to create. Unfortunately, without a GUI in Server Core, it??™s become significantly
Alternatives to Using the Command Line for Updates
Microsoft provides two alternatives to using the command line for Windows Update. The first is to use
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). WSUS is a mini-version of Windows Update that you can set
up on a local server. Instead of requiring all of the machines on your network to update using Windows
Update directly, you can load the updates onto the WSUS server. You then use a group policy to point all
of the systems on the network to use the WSUS server instead of Windows Update. The WSUS server
doesn??™t ship with Server Core, but you can find step-by-step instructions for setting it up at
http://
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