Powershell snippet to check ninite for application update status

ninitecheck.ps1

$applications =@();
if ($true) { 
  $_status, $_appstatus = cmd /c .\niniteone.exe /audit /silent . ; 
  if (-not ($status -like 'Failed*')) {
      while ($_appstatus) {
      $_item, $_appstatus = $_appstatus ; 
      $_name, $_status = $_item.split(':');
      $_application = new-object -typename psobject -prop (@{'name' = $_name; 'status' = $_status.trim()}) ; 
      $applications += ,$_application;
    }
  }
} 
$applications | ?{$_.status -like 'Update*'}