If you are building server images/templates and want to document how you’ve built them why not list the updates that are installed? Â Cool, but we can’t copy-pasta the updates in bulk…These tools will handle this for you:
Windows Server 2003
If you are running Windows Server 2003 take a look at WUL (Windows Update List) a freeware app from Nirsoft. Â You can download it as a .zip which has the standalone version that doesn’t require an install. Â Check it out @ http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wul.html. Â Unfortunately this doesn’t work for Windows Server 2008…
Windows Server 2008
So if your running Windows Server 2008 and want to export a list of updates, there is a built in tool to do this. Â Using WMIs Command-line interface (WMIC) you can export this list.
Launch a command prompt and type:
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 wmic qfe get /format:csv >C:\updates.csv |
Also note that instead of a csv you can use these other format options:
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CSV |Â HFORM |Â HTABLE |Â LIST |Â MOF |Â RAWXML |
HFORM/HTABLE are HTML
LIST is Tab Delimited
RAWXML is XML
July 22nd, 2012 at 5:13 am
Great tip! It also works for Windows 7 Pro.
July 15th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
Thank you Mike. I’ve tried it on Windows Server 2012 and worked