Does anyone know how the “update-windows” exactly works for a Windows-Server (2019) without WSUS (or any other update tool), only the default build-in “update search”.
Does the “update-windows” perform a new search against the public microsoft servers or does it only check internal windows update informations (like the “apt” plugin for debian -> without cron-apt you wouldn’t receive update infos)?
By default the build-in windows “update search” searches every 22h for new updates. That’s my question does the “update-windows” perform a fully update search or only checking the state of the last 22h automatic update search?
So, I would guess that the chek does an actual query for updates.
The apt check can do that as well, btw
-u, --update=OPTS
First perform an 'apt-get update'. An optional OPTS parameter overrides
the default options. Note: you may also need to adjust the global
timeout (with -t) to prevent the plugin from timing out if apt-get
upgrade is expected to take longer than the default timeout.
Thank you. Very strange, on last MS Patchday the service always reported 0 updates. I have also checked the windows logs => 0 Updates. The last month it has worked without any issues. But I don’t think that is an issue of the “update-windows” … more a issue of the windows update search itself. I got also some errors if I tried to install the updates. I will have look at the next patch day
