Offline Updates

[Tech Savvy]

Does anyone use an offline update installer to update windows/ service packs...etc?

Similar to SDI except for Windows updates instead of drivers.

It’s annoying to have to wait forever until the updater downloads it all. I’ve seen WSUS used a lot. I’m just wondering what y’all use.


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[Porthos]

Since I am a 98% Win 10 business I just keep the latest Cumulative on my flash drive for updates. I have an ISO for full version updates.
For clean installs I have up to date images to install.

 

[mikeroq]

Years ago I used to use wsusoffline. It was pretty neat. I had my little repo of updates downloaded. I could just fire it up and it would start progressing through the updates. Was nice not to have to deal with Windows updates. I was updating iny Win 7 images about every 6 months with new updates for a while. Then one day wsusoffline went from being fast at processing updates to slow as hell. I don't know what happened. I'm sure it was something on Microsoft's end.

Anyways My current Win 7 images are about a year or two out but it really isn't too bad just using Windows update. Not many updates to download like there was back in the day.

For Windows 10 there is a feature update every 6 months so I don't even worry about it. Just let Win 10 download update on its own.

 

[fincoder]

Microsoft has the latest Windows 10 install available to download (updated every 6 months), and the latest single cumulative update contains all patches for that build (usually updated every month).

Keep a copy of the latest install ISO (can also be used to upgrade from older builds including Win 7/8) and the latest cumulative update. Done.

 

[cypress]

No longer using an offline update installer. Pretty much all Windows 10 nowadays so keeping my USB installs up to date.