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by switch007 3900 days ago
You have to create a god damn scheduled task to do Windows Updates over WinRM. And it takes ages for Powershell to realise the task is running, and polling the status of the job is a PITA.

Took me days to automate Windows 2012 with Packer. Ugh
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jdub 3900 days ago
For others facing a similar situation, I very strongly recommend starting here instead of DIY. :-)

https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows

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antod 3900 days ago
> You have to create a god damn scheduled task to do Windows Updates over WinRM.

Aha. That must be why I could never get updates working with Packer/WinRM. It would take a very long time to do a huge amount of work then end up never quite finishing properly.

> And it takes ages for Powershell to realise the task is running, and polling the status of the job is a PITA.

OK, so not really a proper solution then. Oh well.

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