Add Updates to SUGs

Question

Hello,
I've been looking for a way to automatically add updates to Software Update Groups based on a specific property filters, I can't use ADR for this, because I can't set "Downloaded" as a property filter.
My end goal is to have a SUG for each product, and have it automatically add all the downloaded (by the ADRs) and remove the expired/superseded updates, so that each product have all it's updates deployed and ready to be installed whenever needed.
I've searched the internet and looked over
THIS and I didn't see anyway to add/search for updates based on property filters or criteria.
So, did I miss something? is this possible?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You don't mention a language or SDK, so I will just point you to the SDK samples of how to enumerate updates based upon criteria:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj217929.aspx and how to create an update list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj217793.aspx
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I was looking for a way to do it through PowerShell, but WMI will do (and seems the only way).
Thanks for the info.
Out-of-the-box the only method to automatically download updates is and ADR. I don't really follow why that's not an option...
To download the content of an update group to a deployment package the cmdlets won't do the trick. You can have a look at something like this:
http://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/add-update-content-to-a-deployment-package-via-powershell-in-configmgr-2012/
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The updates are already downloaded, I want to add/remove them to/from a specific SUG that was not created by ADR.
Based on your blog post (great blog BTW), I modified the query to list all the updates for a specific product that are not part of a specific SUG, but it didn't work (lists all the product updates):
SELECT upd.* FROM SMS_SoftwareUpdate upd, SMS_CIRelation cr WHERE CategoryInstance_UniqueIDs='Product:704a0a4a-518f-4d69-9e03-10ba44198bd5 AND upd.IsContentProvisioned=1 AND upd.IsExpired=0 AND upd.IsSuperseded=0 AND cr.FromCIID<>16786172 AND cr.RelationType=1 AND upd.CI_ID=cr.ToCIID
Is there a way to do it other than listing all the product updates and comparing it to all updates in the SUG?
Thanks.