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Dear Techs
I m trying to use PowerShell and automate windows update troubleshooter. The below command suppose to ask me questions to generate the answer file , but it just completes the execution as soon as i hit enter. The answer file just contains below couple of lines - which i believe is not helpful to automate the process.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Answers Version="1.0"/>
Has anybody successfully generated the answer file. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance !
Aravinth M
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-TroubleshootingPack -Path C:\Windows\diagnostics\system\WindowsUpdate -AnswerFile c:\temp\WUDAnswers.xml
Please answer the following questions
You will be asked a series of questions from the specified package. The answers you provide will be stored in an answer file that you can use to automate question responses during package execution
Press enter to continue
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(272, 41%, 36%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EPZ%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Good day!
What output do you get when you run: Get-TroubleshootingPack -Path C:\Windows\diagnostics\system\WindowsUpdate | Invoke-TroubleshootingPack ?
Have a good day!
Good day!
What output do you get with :
Get-TroubleshootingPack -Path C:\Windows\diagnostics\system\WindowsUpdate | Invoke-TroubleshootingPack
Have a good day!
Hi @Paul Zwagerman I get the attached output . I have selected option 1 to resolve windows update issues - this is what i wanted in answerfile so that it can be automated.
Thanks !
Hi @Paul Zwagerman , Attached the output i receive . I have to choose 1 to resolve issues.
Good to hear! Have a good day and feel free to mark your question as answered.
He doesn't want to have to type in anything. He wants to save the responses in the XML file so that troubleshooting can be done unattended.
I too have the same problem, and I have not found a way to create a usable answers.xml file. I tried using other troubleshooting packs and generating the xml for those, and then trying to build my own xml file for the WindowsUpdate troubleshooter, but nothing worked.
In the image, Aravinth typed in a "1". What would an answer.xml look like to replicate that?
If you know how to do that, then please share the solution.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(217.60000000000002, 98%, 31%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EGF%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Was a resolution ever determined? I'm having the same issue.