Unable to apply "Feature update to Windows 10, version 1909" about packer-plugin-windows-update

[rgl]

What was the actual output? Did it say "Skipped"?

The last time I've looked at it, the Windows Update UI had a different button/workflow for doing feature upgrades, so maybe these features upgrades need to be done in other way?

Maybe you can try to find it out and submit a PR? :-)

The code that actually searches and applies the updates is at https://github.com/rgl/packer-provisioner-windows-update/blob/master/update/windows-update.ps1

[dpb519]

The last time I've looked at it, the Windows Update UI had a different button/workflow for doing feature upgrades, so maybe these features upgrades need to be done in other way?
-- this is what I was trying to find out.

Below are the logs, it says no updates found.

[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:08 packer: System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObjectSystem.Object1Preparing modules for first use.0-1-1Completed-1 #< CLIXML
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT ==> azure-arm: Uploading the Windows update script...
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:08 packer-provisioner-windows-update: 2020/02/19 09:34:08 [INFO] 9759 bytes written for 'uploadData'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:08 [INFO] 9759 bytes written for 'uploadData'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:08 packer: System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObjectSystem.Object1Preparing modules for first use.0-1-1Completed-1 2020/02/19 09:34:08 Uploading file to 'C:/Windows/Temp/packer-windows-update.ps1'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:10 packer: #< CLIXML
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:13 packer: System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObjectSystem.Object1Preparing modules for first use.0-1-1Completed-1 #< CLIXML
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT ==> azure-arm: Running Windows update...
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:34:13 packer: System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObjectSystem.Object1Preparing modules for first use.0-1-1Completed-1 2020/02/19 09:34:13 [INFO] starting remote command: PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -OutputFormat Text -File C:/Windows/Temp/packer-windows-update-elevated.ps1
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT azure-arm: Searching for Windows updates...
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 packer: 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] command 'PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -OutputFormat Text -File C:/Windows/Temp/packer-windows-update-elevated.ps1' exited with code: 0
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT azure-arm: No Windows updates found
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 packer: 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT ==> azure-arm: Provisioning with Powershell...
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] 0 bytes written for 'stderr'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER OUT ==> azure-arm: Provisioning with powershell script: /tmp/powershell-provisioner580512841
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] 60 bytes written for 'stdout'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 0
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 packer-provisioner-windows-update: 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] 60 bytes written for 'stdout'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 packer-provisioner-windows-update: 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] 0 bytes written for 'stderr'
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 packer-provisioner-windows-update: 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] RPC client: Communicator ended with: 0
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] (telemetry) ending windows-update
[1e29b853-ab8f-4ce6-84ea-0c7148878484] PACKER ERR 2020/02/19 09:35:03 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting provisioner powershell

[rgl]

So it really seems that to install feature upgrades some other api (or flag) needs to be called/used. But I do not known which api is that, and since I do not have a particular need for feature upgrades, you'll have to research it yourself and hopefully submit a PR.