In the GPO i created two items, one a Group Policy Preference to copy the Install-WMF5.1.ps1 to the machine, and the other, a scheduled task to execute the script. Since WMF 2 has a PowerShell exe version of. This will target only Windows 7 machines where the PowerShell.exe Version is like 6.1. SELECT * FROM CIM_Datafile WHERE Name = 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe' and VERSION like '6.1%' Select * from win32_operatingsystem where version like '6.1%' The WMI Filter i created checks for the version of Windows, and also the version of the PowerShell.exe file. To do this, i decided to create a GPO to install the Update, and a WMI filter to target only those devices that needed the update. Since i had several hundred devices to run this on, i decided i wanted to automate it. The download comes as a ZIP file with a PowerShell script (Install-WMF5.1.ps1) and an MSU for the architecture of the PC. Reading the blog article about the 5.1 release and then the Install and Configure guidance, we see that WMF 5.1 is released to Windows 7, but, manual steps are required to install it.

I decided whilst reading it, i should probably make sure my clients machines have the latest WMF installed.Īssuming this was just a KB article i searched WSUS for KB and found nothing. Over the weekend i read this article about PowerShell Security in the Enterprise.

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