Force all WSUS clients to check-in and pickup approved updates immediately in PowerShell

Problem:

After approving updates in WSUS and wanting to then install them you have to either wait 24 hours which is the default interval (this can be changed in a GPO) or you can manually run wuauclt.exe /detectnow  and wuauclt.exe /reportnow.  How can we run this on all servers in the domain?

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Setup an AWS SES Bounce dashboard monitor with daily email reports

This post will take you through some steps to setup an AWS SES (Amazon Web Services Simple Email Service) dashboard and daily reporting tool.  If you are moving any production systems over to SES you will need a method of keeping track of email bounces.  If you do not stay on top of it Amazon will suspend your account.

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