PowerShell - Get latest Microsoft KB information

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:36:24 +0000

I frequently visit kbupdate.info which is a great resource for finding latest KB updates, but still you have to manually click through the various lists. Now that I am learning PowerShell anyway, i thought i’ll give myself another task to further improve my PowerShell skills. So here we go, below you find a script that retrieves the latest KB update information for various products and displays them on screen so that I can quickly browse through them and directly launch the article of interest in Internet Explorer.

Fix it automates steps described in Microsoft KB articles

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:37 +0000

Usually when you read a Microsoft Knowledge Base article you find a detailed description on how to solve a particular problem.

In some KB articles you will find the following picture

This indicates that the “Fix it Team” has provided a script / package to automate the system modifications required to fix the problem or change the system behavior.

The fix it team has their own “fix it for me blog” where they list the KB articles they have provided a fix it package.

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PowerShell - Get latest Microsoft KB information

Fix it automates steps described in Microsoft KB articles