Automate the Roll out of Windows Updates in an available state through SCCM ADR's, Powershell and Orchestrator

I've been really busy with OpsMgr and ConfigMgr lately so I haven't had much time to add content to this blog. This post is about the final step in automating Windows Updates Deployments when they need to be deployed through SCCM 2012 (R2) Automatic Deployment Rules in an available deployment type instead of in a required deployment type. I used Orchestrator to schedule the script.

Deploy an application using a Powershell script.

If besides running the setup program there is some additional stuff you need to do before or after the actual setup, creating a Powershell script that does this job for you certainly is a good idea. Sure you can do almost everything with a batch file but... Powershell is the way to go nowadays! However, there are a few pitfalls when trying to make this work using Powershell. So let's get started...