Anyone have success with WSUS offline updater?

It seems like it would be a great program if it would actually do what it's supposed to.

Don't get me wrong, it has helped me out a lil bit, with about ~30-80 updates on various OSes, but.. even after running it a few times, there are still SOMETIMES about 100-200mb more worth of updates through windows update. -- And these aren't drivers/.NET framework updates, they are actual hotfixes.

Any advice? Or reliable alternatives?

 

If this is at work, then your IT department has to approve the updates before it gets pushed through WSUS.

 

i am using the following: http://majorgeeks.com/WSUS_Offline_Update_d6722.html

But i have made copies (using wsus offline's USB stick feature: copy the following updates into the following directory) for the updater's respective OS.
Basically i have 5 folders like this:

wsus_win7_sp1_x86
wsus_win7_sp1_x64
wsus_winvista_sp2_x86
wsus_winvista_sp2_x64
wsus_winxp_sp3

and then i have a wsusoffline_working folder


It's something I'm trying for work since Autopatcher isn't updating as often as I'd like.

I wasn't aware that there was a corporate version though.. So i'll go looking for that and see if it makes a difference.

 

The corporate version requires a dedicated server that predownloads all the updates, you install a client patch on the users machine to redirect the updates to come from your server, and then when you return the machines to customers you would have to uninstall the patch so they can get there own updates.

 

i'm not familiar with servers at all really tbh, can you go into more detail about this, please?

would the wsusoffline_working folder i have on my personal computer at home to do all these updates not be sufficient enough, even if i were to copy it to our bench computers at work? right now it's 2.00gb in size. and i've noticed i don't have to redownload .NET frameworks 3.5 SP1 and 4 or IE9 when trying to make multiple folders for all the different OSes (wsus_win7_sp1_x86, wsus_win7_sp1_x64, wsus_winvista_sp2_x86, wsus_winvista_sp2_x64, wsus_winxp_sp3).

what patch? so far i haven't had any restrictions on customer's computers (as far as them still being able to windows updates) but can you go into more detail on this as well, please?

 

Windows update server, is a server designed for business in order to reduce the amount of downloading the same data and faster patch delivery. You can only setup a WSUS server, running server 03 or 08. Then it goes out and gets the updates and lets you determine which you want to allow to go out to the machines on your network. Now normaly all windows computers have internal settings to point to the micosoft's update servers and wont all you to change it to an internal server. Thus for businesses using WSUS they offer a patch you have to install on each machine to redirect the downloads to an internally hosted update server. So say you setup the WSUS server and have it running. Then each customers machine you install said patch and then they leave to go home. Those users will still be trying to pull updates from your internal update server, which will fail, and they will never get updates after that. If you uninstall the patch, it reverts back to the internet to get patches. Its really not feasible for working on customers pcs. For what reason are you trying to localy store patches? Slow internet connection at the repair site or what? Maybe we can find a better solution for you for updates, but WSUS really isn't designed for what you what.

 

you guessed it; slow connection at work.

 

Yeah, it bit late with this post, but, it isn't really a client patch. Just a GPO push, that sets the clients to use the WSUS server instead of MS's server for updates.

WSUS saves on internet bandwidth, where most have to pay for. This way, using the internal network, is better.

With my work, there are some issues with some computers, that don't work with certain updates. So, we have to be careful. Though, would be nice if some of our vendors would keep up with the modern world. heh

 

I didn't think Autopatcher was still around, unless it's a 'new' AP. IIRC, they were "shut down" by Microsoft for some type of infraction invloving the bundling of updates w/o permission or something. However, after visiting the link in post #4, it appears that AP is still around, though Windows 7 is not listed in their "Current Releases" box.... I remember using AP back with WinXP 6-7 years ago and it was a HUGE time saver when dealing w/ several systems....

(the last "update" on the AP front page is from May 2010, over a year ago )