Script to set ConfigMgr Client's 'Install required updates on a schedule'

This came out of the SDK:

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'From ConfigMgr07 SDK
'Parameters:
'First parameter is the day
'0=none, 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, 3=Tuesday, 4=Wednesday
'5=Thursday, 6=Friday, 7=Saturday, 8=Daily
'2nd Paramter is the time, 0 through 23
newRecurrence = wscript.arguments(0)
newHour = wscript.arguments(1)
set updatesDeployment = CreateObject ("UDA.CCMUpdatesDeployment")
updatesDeployment.SetUserDefinedSchedule newRecurrence, newHour
wscript.quit

As examples, NameOfTheScript.vbs 8 03 would be Daily, 3 am.  NameOfTheScript.vbs 7 23 would be Saturdays, 11 p.m.  If you need to disable the schedule, it's NameOftheScript.vbs 0

If you look at a client, their local Configuration Management applet, on the Updates tab an individual could set a schedule.  This script allows you to set that schedule via a vbscript advertisement.  I'm hoping (still haven't sent this to production yet, so YMMV) that by implementing this script I can appease the conflicting requirements of allowing for long periods before Software Updates are required, yet set installation times for different computers based on roles and get to 97% hotfix deployment quickly.

Published Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:11 AM by skissinger
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# re: Script to set ConfigMgr Client's 'Install required updates on a schedule'

Came across this looking for a subselect query to weed out clients with a specific app guid.  Have you gotten any further on this?  Is it working?  We have thought about doing this same thing now that we are implimenting sccm.

Friday, November 12, 2010 12:27 PM by rtruss