I personally have little interest in Windows servers these days. I'm more interested in automating painful settings and actions on my remaining Windows VMs that

I personally have little interest in Windows servers these days. I'm more interested in automating painful settings and actions on my remaining Windows VMs that I use for some desktop applications or maintain just in case I need one in a pinch. One task I wanted to do was have my Windows VM boot in the night and install all updates before shutting down and creating a snapshot. Windows has a pretty jank update system but I was kind of shocked there is no command line way built into windows to trigger "run all the updates now". Despite their obsession with preventing people turning updates off and rebooting against user wishes they didn't build in a way to actually just run them on a controlled schedule. I ended up needing to install a 3rd party powershell package some one made to get this functionality which is ridiculous and arguably somewhat of a security risk.