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Might be you guys never encountered anything like this. Here are the situations. We have around 2500+ servers (win 2003/2008/2012). Monthly Windows patching done by two way.

  1. Assigned the patch to servers by SCCM/WSUS/BSA, then login manually on the server and download and install the patches. After installation reboot the server. This is a manual patching in our terms.

  2. Assigned, download and install the patch to servers by SCCM/WSUS/BSA and then reboot the server manually. We called this as Automatic patching.

Now i have to prepare list of servers by patching type (Manual & Automatic).

Is there any registry key or anything where i can check windows patching is automatic or manual?

Once i get that info then i will create a script and run on all the server.

Can anybody advise me on this?

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    I think this question would be better suited for serverfault.com
    – Papa
    Nov 24, 2015 at 5:23
  • @user2301394 How are you deploying these updates via SCCM? Surely you'd be deploying this to a collection populated with objects?
    – user95184
    Nov 24, 2015 at 20:31
  • @JoeS Yes, through collection but problem is servers are not from single customer there are multiple customer and deployment of updates are different. Some use SCCM/WSUS/BSA.
    – Roxx
    Nov 25, 2015 at 3:58

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Sounds like this registry key,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

AUOptions
Reg_DWORD
Range = 2|3|4|5
2 = Notify before download.
3 = Automatically download and notify of installation. 
4 = Automatically download and schedule installation. Only valid if values exist for ScheduledInstallDay and ScheduledInstallTime.
5 = Automatic Updates is required and users can configure it.

List of all registry keys relating to Windows Update:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939844(v=ws.10).aspx

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  • Go to GPEDIT.msc
  • Expand Windows
  • Expand Windows Components
  • Expand Windows Update
  • Check Auto Configure option on the right side
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