What does wuauclt exe

Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Diana D. Event Viewer? I guess it's all a matter of perception. Such is the case here, as well -- your command was simply ignored it was, after all, quite invalid.

When run from the command prompt on a client in the form of "wuauclt. You can verify this occurs by opening the windowsupdate. If you manually run wuauclt. So, if you have your clients configured to download any available updates, it will do so. Or, if you have your clients configured to just check in and inform you there are updates without downloading, it will do that also.

The windowsupdate. Typically this form of the command is used when server-side targeting is being used, and a client system has just been reassigned to new group s via the WSUS console. Use of this command forces the WUAgent to discard any previously known group memberships and to requery the WSUS server for the current memberships. This command should also be used when the SusClientID has been deleted and a detection was performed within the previous hour to ensure the WUAgent does not use the SusClientID that is cached in the targeting cookie.

If there are no pending events to be reported, this command does nothing. No other parameters are supported or documented -- although many are defined in the source code and have been extracted via reflection. Some of them have experimental functionality, but should not be used in a production environment. If Automatic Updates is disabled, this option has no effect.

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