Question

Using Get-Hotfix, sort by hotfix description, include the description, the Hotfix ID, and the installation date. Put into an HTML.

Answer 1

To create a sorted HTML report of hotfixes by description including Hotfix ID, and installation date, use the Get-Hotfix cmdlet in PowerShell, sort and select the desired properties, and then export to HTML.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sorting Hotfix Information with Get-Hotfix and Outputting to HTML

To sort hotfix information by the hotfix description using the Get-Hotfix PowerShell cmdlet, you can use a pipeline to sort the objects based on the Description property, include the Description, the Hotfix ID, and the Installation Date, and then convert this data to an HTML format. Below is an example of how this can be done in PowerShell:

Get-Hotfix | Sort-Object Description | Select-Object Description,HotFixID,InstalledOn | ConvertTo-Html -Property Description,HotFixID,InstalledOn > "hotfixes.html"

This command gets all the hotfixes applied to the system, sorts them by their description, selects the necessary properties, and converts the result to HTML. The resulting file, "hotfixes.html", will contain the sorted list of hotfixes in a table format with the specified columns.