Using an image that is representative of the population of POSReady 7 systems I run windows update and get a list of all the required patches.Ģ. To keep our POSReady 7 devices up to date what I do is the following:ġ. I don't see that fairing well for anyone. Considering that embedded devices are usually the devices that really need a systems management appliance like KACE I would say that their (Dell's) continued lack of support is in direct opposition to where the market is heading. This is still an issue for us, it is really unfortunate that Dell continues to not support Microsoft Embedded OS's on the K1000. Just got an email about someone commenting on my post :) Thank you for any support you have or advice from your own experiance doing this. How does one go about installing windows updates using KACE? I've been using KACE for ~1 month now to deploy our product and update it, but for some reason getting KACE to install windows updates is proving itself really really difficult. Here is a quick little flow chart of what I'd like KACE to do:įind out what updates are needed for the OS > download the updates > check to make sure that all the updates were successfully downloaded > install the updates /q /norestart > reboot the machine > check to make sure the updates were successfully installed But my manager (and me too) would really like to be able to use KACE to install the last year's worth of windows updates.

I'm very tempted to write a batch file that the KACE agent can run to install all the updates for me. I was recently put in charge of managing a few hundred POSReady machines that haven't recieved any windows updates in ~12 months. All the machines I've been put in charge of were built using a base image that has Automatic Updates turned off.įiguring out how to use KACE to find and install all critical windows updates (so far, on my own) has been rather difficult.

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