Get Windows 10 current patch information using PowerShell script

Usually, users who wish to find out whether the latest cumulative update is installed on their Windows 10 systemuse this method to check the Windows 10 Update History. In this post, we will show you how to get current patch information for Windows 10 using a PowerShell script.

PowerShell script to check Windows Update status

The PowerShell script can be used to report which OS build a Windows 10 computer is currently on as well as which update is the latest update available to the device. It can also report on all Windows updates published for the version of Windows 10 a workstation is currently on.

When you run the script, the following information will be displayed:

Current OS version
Current OS Edition
Current OS Build number
The installed update that corresponds to that build number, as well as the KB number and a link to the info page
The latest available update for the OS version

To get Windows 10 current patch information using PowerShell script, you need to create and run the PowerShell script using the code below from Github.

[CmdletBinding()] Param( [switch]$ListAllAvailable, [switch]$ExcludePreview, [switch]$ExcludeOutofBand ) $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' $URI = "https://aka.ms/WindowsUpdateHistory" # Windows 10 release history Function Get-MyWindowsVersion  [CmdletBinding()] Param ( $ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) $Table = New-Object System.Data.DataTable $Table.Columns.AddRange(@("ComputerName","Windows Edition","Version","OS Build")) $ProductName = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion' -Name ProductName).ProductName Try  $Version = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion' -Name ReleaseID -ErrorAction Stop).ReleaseID  Catch  $Version = "N/A"  $CurrentBuild = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion' -Name CurrentBuild).CurrentBuild $UBR = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion' -Name UBR).UBR $OSVersion = $CurrentBuild + "." + $UBR $TempTable = New-Object System.Data.DataTable $TempTable.Columns.AddRange(@("ComputerName","Windows Edition","Version","OS Build")) [void]$TempTable.Rows.Add($env:COMPUTERNAME,$ProductName,$Version,$OSVersion) Return $TempTable  Function Convert-ParsedArray  Param($Array) $ArrayList = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList foreach ($item in $Array)  [void]$ArrayList.Add([PSCustomObject]@ Update = $item.outerHTML.Split('>')[1].Replace('')[1].Replace('')[1].Replace('You can exclude Preview or Out-of-band updates available that are more recent than the one you have installed from being reported as the latest available update, so you can just focus on the cumulative updates by running the command below:
Get-CurrentPatchInfo -ExcludePreview -ExcludeOutofBand 
 You can also list all Windows updates that Microsoft has published for your OS version with the following command:
Get-CurrentPatchInfo -ListAvailable
If you want to exclude Preview and Out-of-band updates from the list but list all Windows updates that Microsoft have published for your OS version, run the command below:
Get-CurrentPatchInfo -ListAvailable -ExcludePreview -ExcludeOutofBand
That's it!