I’ve been rebuilding my test lab after installing a SSD into the machine running it in place of the SATA drive. Huge improvement in load speed of virtual machines – well worth the cost.
I usually have a number of server core machines in the lab and use WSUS for patching. One issue I’d never really resolved was patching those server core machines – the control panel fro Windows Update isn’t available!
Finally found a solution in the Windows Update PowerShell module from
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc
Install the module and then you can install your patches using
Get-WUInstall –AcceptAll
I’m running Windows 2012 R2 on all my servers so the modules auto load