[SOLVED] WUA vs Windows Update

[Cantrel]

Hello,

We use Windows Update Agent (WUA) to manage Windows updates on our client machines running Windows 10. It works quite well, but for several reasons, we would like to leave some machines using standard Windows Update instead of WUA. Is it possible to have this hybrid configuration and select certain machines and exclude WUA from them?

Would configuring two different types of agents meet this need?

Thank you,

[dcardon]

Hello Cantrel,

Yes, that's entirely possible. Simply don't enable it when creating the agent, and then create a configuration package to enable it. You can check the settings on a machine where it's enabled (or consult the documentation) https://www.wapt.fr/fr/doc-1.7/wapt-usa ... pdate.html) and take the conf package as an example https://store.wapt.fr/store/tis-wapt-conf-policy

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inifile_writestring(WAPT.config_filename,'waptwua','enabled',True)

Sincerely,
Denis

[Cantrel]

Thanks, indeed, in the meantime we created a package that changes the WUA parameter in the ini file to false.

We're just looking for the line to reboot the WAPT service using that same package. We'll find it eventually...

Thanks again.

[dcardon]

Hello Cantrel,

It is possible to restart the reloading of the configuration file with the command

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WAPT.reload_config_if_updated()

However, I'm not sure if all the service threads are reloaded to reflect the change. So if it's not reflected immediately, it's possible to make a call

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wgets('http://127.0.0.1:8088/waptservicerestart.json')

Sincerely,
Denis

[jacky35]

That's an interesting question.
Thank you!