# Searching / Installing Existing Updates

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/searching-installing-existing-updates/27712>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [June 5, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/searching-installing-existing-updates/27712 "2018-06-05T15:35:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohammed\_Asif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mohammed\_Asif](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mohammed_Asif)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/searching-installing-existing-updates/27712/1 "2018-06-05T15:35:48Z")

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Hi,

I am using ansible 2.5.3  
with Python 2.7.5

I’ve got an issue where with win\_updates where it doesn’t seem to find already checked updates.  
I understand with win\_updates search it should only search for new updates that are currently not listed on the server which works fine however, when Windows is configured to auto check for updates (but not install) Ansible fails to see them.

Because of this win\_updates does not install those updates either.

We do want to search for updates first, get a list of them and then at a later date install them but it seems this doesn’t work?

Is there anything I can do to get this working?

In Windows updates panel, I can see the already searched updates / install them and all is fine.

Thanks

Best Regards