A script that can collect patch information ???

microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting

11 Mar 2007 7:36 AM

Mike

Hello,

In my job, I have to put the following information about windows updates
into a spreadsheet each month:

patch code - description - install date

I have to go to microsofts site, look up the code, and copy and paste the
heading of each patch into the spreadsheet for the description.

This takes a very long time.

I am wondering if anyone knows of a script that can gather this information
for me and save it to a spreadshhet file.

Thanks for your help

13 Mar 2007 5:07 AM

On Mar 11, 2:36 am, Mike <M***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> In my job, I have to put the following information about windows updates
> into a spreadsheet each month:
>
> patch code - description - install date
>
> I have to go to microsofts site, look up the code, and copy and paste the
> heading of each patch into the spreadsheet for the description.
>
> This takes a very long time.
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows of a script that can gather this information
> for me and save it to a spreadshhet file.
>
> Thanks for your help

You can use the TechNet Security RSS feed and write a small parser to
read and save the information to a spreadsheet.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx