Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD
February 12, 2008
What a handy tool; if you download the app you can select which Microsoft OS/Applications you need patches for and it will download them all via the Windows online catalog to a source directory and then compile a script to auto install them all - it will even generate a .ISO file and handle dependencies and reboots - v.handy (and more efficient) if you need to quickly present it to a bunch of virtual machines with no Internet access or are on a site with slow internet access.
Excellent; now as far as I know Microsoft have no mechanism for doing this other than downloading all the patches manually… even with the Vista RTM images I built last week it had nearly 100Mb of OS patches alone!
Screenshot of the available options in the app - download it here
OS Updates - multi-language too
Office Suite Updates too
You can even get all the patches for everything and it will compile it into a DVD .ISO image - I’ll definitely be using this - hopefully you can use the info it downloads to slipstream update a vista .WIM image - will have to try that in a couple of weeks.
(original link from a post on slashdot)
[...] Manager, or similar. If the VM isn’t connected to the internet then check out this article by vinf.net that outlines how to use a rather good utility called ‘CTUpdate’ to build a [...]