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Update Manager VS WuInstall

Compare Update Manager VS WuInstall and see what are their differences

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WuInstall is a command line tool that makes it possible to install Windows Updates on demand.
  • Update Manager Landing page
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    2023-10-23
  • WuInstall Landing page
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    2021-09-19

Update Manager videos

Overview of the Update Manager Interface in the vSphere Client

More videos:

  • Review - Remediate Hosts Against Patch Baselines using Update Manager

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Category Popularity

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Software Marketplace
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
OS & Utilities
74 74%
26% 26
Patch Management
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

WuInstall might be a bit more popular than Update Manager. We know about 2 links to it since March 2021 and only 2 links to Update Manager. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Update Manager mentions (2)

  • Can someone help me with this? i'm new to linux and idk if i should worry about this.
    I think someone (not me; I do this too much) should file a bug report about this - here. I note that there is a corresponding message when use uses apt (or apt-get) in the terminal, except that, in the terminal, the message is tagged as a warning, whereas here it is tagged as an error - which makes the situation more serious. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Backporting mintupdate
    I don't think the Mint team has said. All that the team has said, to my knowledge, is that some of the 20.2 update will be backported. One thing you could do to try to answer your question is to keep an eye upon the relevant repository. Source: almost 3 years ago

WuInstall mentions (2)

  • Running All Windows Updated w/PowerShell
    I don't think either of those will, they will need WSUS. WUinstall can use an offline repo: https://wuinstall.com/. That is not cheap though. Source: 11 months ago
  • I don't hear about NinjaRMM too much around here, has patching gotten any better? How about their support?
    The patching actually uses WUInstall - https://wuinstall.com/ as the "patch management" agent, instead of some custom made/janky one. They must pay a hefty licensing fee to be able to use this. Source: about 3 years ago

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