Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD
February 12, 2008What 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 here (updated 14th Sept’09)
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 [...]
[...] all you need to do is get your master VM built with the OS, patched, VMtools installed and you can shut it down, convert to template and then just use the deploy [...]
The download link doesn’t work. Is there another one I can use instead?
Thanks
Updated download link – will adjust original post shortly
http://www.h-online.com/security/Offline-Update–/features/112953
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