Rui Lopes

No. Handling restarts is a typical requirement for applying windows updates. It has to be handled by this provisioner because packer does not have loops. Did you try the [restart_timeout...

> > Did you try the [restart_timeout parameter on this provisioner](https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update/blob/6793f6375aa3b786be6ef36d571dc9d35f9f90de/update/provisioner.go#L47))? > > I did - didnt work. Oh that's a bummer :-( > > It has to be handled...

any news about this? the following also didn't help: ```bash while ! kubectl rollout status --namespace=cockroach-operator-system deployment/cockroach-operator-manager; do sleep 5; done ```

`host` is the machine running ansible. `switch` is the actual tp-link switch.

in hindsight, using the `host` word was indeed misleading with the existing ansible terminology. `host` was/is used as a generic way to reference the host/node that is configuring the switch....

since this is a vagrant environment, you can use, e.g., `vagrant ssh jenkins`. is that what you were looking for?

please try https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update/releases/tag/v0.16.1

please try https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update/releases/tag/v0.16.4. it now ignores updates that do not have a title.

> Jsut an fyi: https://community.automox.com/industry-discussion-143/windows-11-updates-api-was-secretly-changed-here-s-what-it-broke-how-to-fix-it-2507 At https://learn.microsoft.com/en-sg/answers/questions/1791668/powershell-command-outputting-system-comobject-on there seems to be more details.

please try https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update/releases/tag/v0.16.7 it includes the workaround described at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-sg/answers/questions/1791668/powershell-command-outputting-system-comobject-on and at [The June 2024 preview update might impact applications using Windows Update APIs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-23h2#3351msgdesc).