How to capture Last Windows Update time from Servers

I've Googled this without any luck. I'm looking to capture the last time a Windows Server installed updates. I think all I really want is the data in this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto
Update\Results\Install

Does anyone know a way to get this data using APM or NPM? Thank you!

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Apparently, WMI can query the registry for values according to the following article:

How Can I Tell Whether a Value Exists in the Registry? from the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog

If you can tweak the script to query for the value you want, you can dump it into a Windows Script Monitor and output through the Message: value. Keep in mind that it will be practically impossible to create an alert to trigger on this value. Instead, you'll be able to embed it in an e-mail action using the ${StatusOrErrorDescription} variable.