Hey guys,
We do regular preventative maintenance for some of our clients and have been using SnappyDriver to update their drivers while offline, I'm wondering if there's a similar solution for Windows Updates. The clients I mostly work with are in locked down environments so internet connections are not available. If you have any ideas on how to address this, please share. I'm assuming downloading all Windows updates would be extremely large in file size.
Thanks
[url="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/323166/how-to-download-updates-that-include-drivers-and-hotfixes-from-the-win"]Here's[/url] something I've found regarding offline updates, it appears you can download updates on a online workstation and move the files to the offline stations to update them.
Further on down the page there appears to be a method to update computers across an entire enterprise using a single server.
[QUOTE=slapdown3;52810064][url="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/323166/how-to-download-updates-that-include-drivers-and-hotfixes-from-the-win]Here's[/url] something I've found regarding offline updates, it appears you can download updates on a online workstation and move the files to the offline stations to update them.
Further on down the page there appears to be a method to update computers across an entire enterprise using a single server.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for that, only problem is that this assumes you know which updates you need/want. As I travel to clients (A fair distance) there'll be absolutely no internet connection on any workstations there. This is why SnappyDriver is excellent for drivers, it'll download all drivers and store them offline and then scan to see if they are newer than any drivers currently on the PC.
[url]http://www.wsusoffline.net/[/url] is your best friend for offline updates.
I normally use it for updating fresh installs of Windows, since Windows 7 update is a fucking joke but since it caches all the installers locally and is portable, it should be useful for your purposes. It already knows what updates have been superceded and are needed. Just make sure you know exactly what OS's, architecture, software and such that you will be using so you cache them all ahead of time. And that you have a USB drive large enough for moving them around. I'd say 64 GB should be plenty.
[QUOTE=Demache;52810096][url]http://www.wsusoffline.net/[/url] is your best friend for offline updates.
I normally use it for updating fresh installs of Windows, since Windows 7 update is a fucking joke but since it caches all the installers locally and is portable, it should be useful for your purposes. It already knows what updates have been superceded and are needed. Just make sure you know exactly what OS's, architecture, software and such that you will be using so you cache them all ahead of time. And that you have a USB drive large enough for moving them around. I'd say 64 GB should be plenty.[/QUOTE]
I was just playing around with that, I'm currently downloading everything I can and will chuck it onto an external HDD. I'm hoping this works out well
[QUOTE=Lebofly;52810110]I was just playing around with that, I'm currently downloading everything I can and will chuck it onto an external HDD. I'm hoping this works out well[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it works really well in my experience. It will even auto reboot and restart itself to continue using a temp admin account if needed so its pretty much set and forget until it finishes installing.
I've been using WSUS offline for a couple of years, its really not the most reliable in my use case. I normally use it just to pull specific updates and then merged them into a relevant image.
Its normally an issue with the account logging back in after a reboot, there used to be an issue with a password being set on the WSUS account and it just took a dump from there onward.
Downloaded 60GBs worth of updates last night, I'll get a clean Win7 machine going and see how it works out
Open RUN and Type "msconfig" Then check service-----scroll down and find Windows Update and unmark this option.
That's It
That doesn't really accomplish what he is asking, I believe he wants to install Windows update but offline, not just turn them off.
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