How to create a list of non upgradable software for winget

[Braedach]

In reference to your code here

https://www.codewrecks.com/post/general/winget-update-selective/

Your code does not allow for a null value - ie.. nothing to upgrade

I have put your code in the following if statement after you call the winget upgrade

if (!($upgradeResult -match "No installed package found matching input criteria."))
{
your code
}

Now for the proactive remediation bit in MEM

Love your work.

[Kizan]

I found your great code. One odd problem. Some of the Names and Product IDs get corrupted when pushing all the output from "winget upgrade" into a variable, but this is only a problem on Win10, not on Win11 (see attached image). I'm guessing that the output shown in the article has it too for Microsoft SQL Server Management... entry.

The error provides a bogus ID and so the app never updates. Thanks for your great code!

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[alkampfergit]

Thanks :)

[kdpkke]

Hello again :) With the latest release winget build, I also suggest to change the line
$upgradeResult = winget upgrade | Out-String
with
$upgradeResult = winget upgrade -include--unknown | Out-String

This way it is possible to check the tool table including also the programs with an associated unknown version

[alkampfergit]

I've made a public gist, it will be simpler to maintain.
https://gist.github.com/alkampfergit/2f662c07df0ca379c8e8e65e588c687b

[MrSanityCheck]

Also agree that this is a great script until the "winget upgrade --all" process can be configured to continue past errors such as file not found. Thanks!

[unL33T123]

Would be nice to see a feature where it would also check if any desktop icons were added and delete them.

[d0verenny]

I receive an error:

Anyone had it too?

[alkampfergit]

It seems that windows deployment kit have a version that starts with char '<' it make the code that parses version to crash ... curious....

Probably you need simply to trim version string for space and < chars.

[d0verenny]

Hi! Thank you for the reply! Could you please elaborate, where do I trim it? Please note that I only excluded Unity from upgrades in the ps.1 script. I need the rest of the stuff to be upgraded.

[d0verenny]

I found the root of the problem. I had a couple of different Windows SDK versions installed together. Probably, some other program installed it as a prerequisite before, and I forgot about it. I just uninstalled both the versions via usual "Add or remove programs" in Windows, and reinstalled WindowsSDK via winget again. The error is gone now.

[alkampfergit]

Perfect!! Il sab 15 ott 2022, 11:02 maksimilinskii ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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I found the root of the problem. I had a couple of different Windows SDK versions. Probably, some other program installed it as a prerequisite before, and I forgot about it. I just uninstalled both the versions via usual "Add or remove programs" in Windows, and reinstalled WindowsSDK via winget again. The error is gone now. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACXREMVZWNOUR6FLNCMYHDWDJXIRANCNFSM5JFW5EHA> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[alienryes]

Great script, thanks! At present it doesn't account for packages that have versions set to unknown (e.g. Speedfan). So I changed the get line to:

$upgradeResult = winget upgrade --include-unknown | Out-String

and then the filter line to:

if (-not (($toSkip -contains $package.Id) -or ($package.Version -like "unknown")))