Update Windows Offline with WSUS Offline Updater

Info
Level: Beginner
Presenter: Eli the Computer Guy
Date Created: January 29, 2013
Length of Class: 13:02
Tracks
Computer Repair
Prerequisites
None
Purpose of Class
This class teaches students how to use WSUS Offline Updater to download Windows Updates and be able to install them from a local storage device.
Class Notes
You can download updates for only the Windows Operating Systems you need.
Make sure to check off to download Service Packs and .NET Framework
All updates are not installed at one time. You will have to reboot, and rerun the updater a number of times.
Resources
www.wsusoffline...

[@aprilballantyne9158]

3 years old .. I guess some of the best programs do not necessarily need updating the videos here It is a wonderful program. Thank you.

[@ladyecattec.6572]

Thanks for your help! I didn't know how to install the d/l's once it was finished, or even where they were. Once you showed me, I checked the 'client' folder.. and there it was! I help the kids in the neighborhood learn to fix their own PC's, and this is a GREAT tool! Will be donating to WSUS, too!

[@johnbenson222]

Yes. Thanks for the tutorial, Eli.

[@Frank55]

I didn't get any updates anymore for Win 7 Pro - 64. With this tool I got all the updates at once. At the moment I am installing the updates and everything seems to work as explained in the video. This tool can be a real lifesaver! GREAT!!!!

[@rainbowmerlin1]

A lifesaver! Was unable to get windows updater to work, despite applying all the fixes I could find online. This solves it. Great video - very clear.

[@PeterMenardonpremier]

Kudos to you Eli, I found the site on my own but needed your tutorial to help me navigate. After 3 months in the wilderness I am installing updates like a boss!

[@RandyHanley]

Some of the best tutorials I've ever seen, Eli. You're a great teacher. Your videos are extremely valuable to the I.T. world.

[@RandyHanley]

Good to know. Thank you for letting me ponder if I am serious or not.

[@babybear19791]

I'm using WSUS Offline Update right now and it's great. I received a used Windows 7 64 bit the runs fine but the half of the updates would fail. This offline updater is a lifesaver. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@ClaudioFontachannel]

I really enjoyed your very clear pronunciation of every word. I am Italian and although I speak a little English I understood almost everything that you said. thank you. good video and tutorial.

[@Rampracaash]

Yes, the pronounciation!! "Daaawwwnload it" LOL..

[@Greggg57]

Soon as I can I am going to send this inventor some more money. His program is somewhat difficult to understand and use, but when I got onto it, it worked like a dream. After a certain point it runs all by itself. And it works. Now my computer even looks for and downloads additional updates. It made my computer run like new. I had problems that I didn't even realize were problems. Great, great program.

[@TechBrosWilkes]

Wow, I have been asking myself why I have been downloading all these updates over and over again on each new pc. Thank you so much for sharing this incredibly valuable information.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaa808]

Thank you so much for this, now I don't have to hang my self upside down while figuring out why Windows update stuck at 0%.

[@DanielNjora]

I must say you have made my day after 5 painful days trying to perform a migration of servers and yet the updates kept me getting frustrated. God bless you.

[@Goertzen88]

as a guy starting a new computer repair business, can tell i'll be watching alot of these videos. Thanks!

[@CaptainScarlet1961]

Many thanks Eli, I know this vid is years old but me being here proves it's worth. As everybody knows support for Win7 ended on 14/01/2020 but what a lot of people don't know is that the final update released on the 14/01/2020 seems to corrupt "Windows Update" to the point of doing some really strange if you try & use it, I'm now trying to get round the problem by using this utility in 2020.

[@Every-thing-it]

A computer guy that actually knows something, and isn't faking it. I run in to so many quacks... I was doing it fine...but I wanted to watch and see if you did anything differently. I also love this program...lately Windows update has "broke" on so many computers I maintain...I don't even troubleshoot anymore, I just use this method. Although, afterwards, when everything is current, The defaul WU usually comes back to functioning properly...so, more than one benefit. You get the updates, but often it will also fix a broken windows update system on Windows 7.

[@zerolabs]

Invaluable tool. I just built a virtual machine in Virtualbox on a Linux host OS. Winblows updates was chewing up 100% CPU for hours and hours with nothing to show for it so I bailed out of it and sought this off line solution. Thanks for this tutorial. But seriously, "No idea why [macrosuck] hasn't put it out"? LOL! That's funny.

[@Every-thing-it]

Try downloading everything on another (desktop/faster ) machine...then run the install tool on the tablet for the updates you need. That's the cool part of it, you can download and store the updates on a flash drive.

[@ubeaut]

I use ipfire as a firewall and it has transparent proxy, so all computers that need updating go through ipfire and it has a program called update accelerator on it and it does the same thing. It caches all the windows updates. The first computer that needs updates that are not on the cache server pulls them down so any other computers that need that update get it from the local cache. Although this program you are showing is would be good on a cd or flash drive for when you are not near ipfire server. Well done!!

[@monsterabyss1992]

i love you! i am an IT technician at a school and by far the most time consuming and annoying this is trying to get windows updates working, ill have to leave it checking all day sometimes and it still will not find the updates

[@staffen50]

hi Eli the Computer Guy , i have been watching your videos for about three years. And honestly i have never watched this video until today. For real it's painful to wait for the updates to download after installing windows.. thanks for the video and keep the good work....

[@russells9296]

I want you to know that I cried while watching this... Literally cried. This hasn't ended my Vista/defender/update/installer nightmare, but it's FINALLY a step in the right direction, after 2 weeks of hell. Anyone else with the same problem, here is what you need to know: 1) DO NOT INSTALL MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS!!! DON'T DO IT!!! It will trap you in BSOD hell, and you'll have to boot in safe mode and run a system restore. Select every OTHER checkbox option, including "show log". 2) Don't worry when the screen freezes at "listing updates"; I know it seems similar to the infinite "checking for updates" screen, but it's just slow, and will take 4-5 hours to "unfreeze" and finish. 3) Be sure to keep rebooting and re-running WSUS; DON'T STOP until the log says "Nothing to do!" 4) TURN OFF YOUR INTERNET during the WSUS install; if your task scheduler launches a Defender Definition Update during the install, you'll BSOD. 5) When WSUS is done, your Windows Updater should finally work again; just give it 30 mins to run. However, DO NOT INSTALL ANY RECENT MICROSOFT UPDATES!!! Any Windows update from 2016 seems to BSOD Vista/XP computers; I think Microsoft is trying to force us to buy new computers. 6) Disable any/all forms of Microsoft security and use a 3rd party software instead. Defender scans/updates in particular cause my BSODs. 7) Defender Definition updates can't be disabled, but Task Scheduler shows you when they run; mine run at 2:03 AM every day, so I turn off my internet from 2 - 3 AM, and it avoids the update/BSOD.

[@GrandAdmiralBrador]

I was totally doing this wrong and thought the program was broken. Thanks Eli, you have saved me SO much time and effort.

[@timothygarcia8721]

you are a lifesaver. Windows Updater was not working and this resolved everything!

[@TheMiracleMatter]

same, it's been more than a year that WU didn't work for me and now I gave up solving the problem. I'd rather just use WSUS now until I get the time to reformat and start anew

[@agnesbfenoli]

Thank you for this very clear and simple explanation. I just downloaded it after reading a few posts online and as I was looking at it I did not really know how it works. After watching your video everything is running. All the best to you!

[@catfish252]

Thank you Eli -- I found this utility today and fumbled through it until I saw your tutorial. This is going to save me so much time.

[@ArduinoMan101]

As an IT manager this programs is a lifesaver

[@ryanfadholi4296]

Great video Eli, very informative! As my family IT guy, I often need to install multiple windows update. This is very helpful :)

[@deadseid]

Skip to 4:37 to bypass explanation of what the program is, what it does, and how to download it.

[@samratroy5091]

I googled and downloaded WSUS but wasn't sure what I have to do with this.. Thanks for the great tutorial. :)

[@imparticle9]

I can't believe this. I WAS in a pinch for updates but you helped me out soooo much. I was searching for something else and your video came up so I decided to just watch through it and wala! I can now save the day at work!

[@Nkyleccc]

Jamike Felix HAHAHAH I AM IN A PINCH TOO!!

[@imparticle9]

Nathan Kyle​ Lol right? This thing is like gold!

[@Nico-cc3cn]

I was wondering in which folder was the installer located, but now i know, thank you.

[@mrkabayann]

where is it?

[@ZackKoutaRoxas]

The "Client" folder.

[@dudemayne8820]

Thanks so much Eli, a help as always. For some reason after reinstalling Windows 7 after trying Windows 10 for a few months it would constantly tell me that it was checking for updates forever so i'll use this tool from now on to update my computer. Saves bandwidth. Since they also ended mainstream support for W7 recently it shouldn't be too much of a hassle with having to download new versions of the software just to update it.

[@DaemeonArkenyonZane]

This tool is one of my favorites. It helps me bypass Win 8.1 update, which doesn't work properly due to using USB tethering via my phone. I've been using this tool since 2013, and I'll keep using it until it passes beyond usefulness :P

[@painandgain5849]

Such a hell of pain when I want to update new fresh install Windows. Very useful, thank you.

[@andrewzigmont2673]

Very nice. Just discovered your channel today, dealing with fresh with w8.1 update problems. Easy to follow. To the point. Nice.

[@ciriloperez2667]

After the initial round of updates, does anyone know how you add future MS updates? Do you simply run the tool again, and will it see what's already downloaded? In other words, if I windows is up to date today and next week MS adds 20 updates, will this tool only download those 20 updates or will it want to download all 200+ updates?

[@Ochadd]

Would also love to know. I haven't been able to get it to update without doing them all.

[@n4botz]

Hi Eli, thanks for your "how to use WSUS" tutorial. Today i will make a costom and final build of windows xp for my private software archive. I would have some questions about this tool. Watch your video and now finally answered. Big thanks and best regards from germany. Cheerio Patrick

[@georgemcaldeira5632]

After listening this becomes simple steps, before watching was complicated. Thanks for this tutorial.

[@ff3nyx]

still working Ago-2019 for win 7 and win 8.

[@iLife64]

Thank you for this video, I plan on keeping an airgapped machine for archiving but also wanted to keep it up to date

[@davidmoran4471]

Thanks Eli, heard of WSUS but had never explored it, now I'm sorry that I hadn't, I support ≈250 users in a mixed XP and 7 environment and still run into an occasional PC with XP SP 2.

[@powellgammill4265]

Another beautiful thing is if you leave the installation in place and when you need to update it, just update in place. The old download is still there. The new download script only downloads what files are not present so you don't have to download the whole enchilada once again. I also keep 9.2.1 in a folder as it is the last XP legacy version.

[@jayremix]

I was working on WSUS on 2012 server R2 and I keep running problems with it, I had two weeks to come up with another solution and I learned it all from here in half hour or less! I just want to say thank you Eli! i learned so much from you. I wish there is a way to create an msi package for this and deploy it through AD. if anyone else has input regarding this, let me know!! thanks

[@paultarring8489]

Thanks - Completely solved my issue of Windows update not running after a complete rebuild of Windows 7. Was stuck on searching for updates even when left over night and non of the MS support instructions to rfix worked but using the steps in this video it downloaded and installed 300+ updates and next time I went into it Windows Update worked fine so what ever the block was WSUS cleared it wish I had seen this 3 frustrating days before.

[@0cards0]

+Paul Tarring i have the same problem, so i need to put those updates on my external drive & then press the updategenerator from my external drive & it will install on to my internal drive?

[@oneszeros1]

yes - you can move the whole wsusoffline directory to an external drive AFTER you have run the update generator locally and then simply open the client directory and run UpdateInstaller from an external drive. Works from USB thumb drive anyway. This is a good thing for having a backup of the updates and saves downloading them again and again if say you reformat or go back to factory every six months or whatever. Otherwise if you so please you can run both UpdateGenerator and UpdateInstaller from wherever you unpacked to, for example download and unpack in Downloads and run both from there should work fine :)

[@0cards0]

+Ones&Zeros ok thanks, what if i installed some updates already? will it recognize them & skip them?

[@oneszeros1]

From what I am led to believe yes. It should skip over any previously installed updates and only install updates which are not present or of a higher version number

[@0cards0]

+Ones&Zeros ok thanks

[@Rigdab]

Everything seemed to go as it should. However, once a few updates were installed on my offline computer, I rebooted to install the remaining updates. The command prompt shows "ERROR: Medium neither supports your WIndows or Office Version" after checking the medium content. Any idea what could be causing this issue?

[@Cannabisters]

Have the same problem, currently I'm downloading all available content, will see.

[@MegaDutcher]

Can confirm this is actually 10x faster than using windows update. It downloaded all of the updates (169 in my case) in 10 minutes. Whereas windows update left overnight still hadn't found all the updates I needed let alone downloaded them.

[@TyrenLeong]

How do you put Wsus on a usb drive so i can just plug and update on a different pc? Sorry if i sound dumb.

[@MegaDutcher]

Tyren L. I don't know...sorry

[@Bullitthiphop]

Yes if you select the option create an iso (or something similar) and have an iso burning program to burn it to usb or dvd

[@MaxAnderson88]

Eli mentions it downloaded 3 GB of files with Win 7 in 2013. In 2020 with Win 8.1 and minimal options checked it took 8 GB and then stopped with an error, presumably because that drive was full. The WSUSoffline.net gives no instructions about how much disk space you need to run this software. It does NOT check which updates are needed and then download just those. So, if Windows Update stops working because of something e.g. memory corruption, this software cannot be set to just do the most recent updates.

[@pranav7374]

one thing you did not mention is, when installing the update, if you do not check the box which says " Automatic Boot & Recall", you need to manually recall updates after every boot by executing another file called " Update.cmd"(Run as Admin).

[@roydannyboy1986]

This is brilliant solved problems with my laptop freezing in windows 8.1. Thanks very much for an easy to understand tutorial.

[@SignedAdam]

:O your right mate, had no idea there was a tool like this! no more updates failed, how many of us get that, windows failed to update! mostly because loss of internet or something, drives me uppppp the wall, gosh! THANKS!

[@skyfox9275]

Eli i absolutely love your videos, it helps me a lot and also your accurate descriptions. Please keep it up the good work, you are an amazing teacher.

[@gionova1]

Works great but make sure to upgrade the hardware first. I had two similar HP computers and one had almost maxed out hardware and it took less than a third of the time the other stock computer needed to update.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

This program is good in theory, but poor in execution. I recently tested it out as I wanted to do a completely updated Windows 7 virtual machine from a fresh install. However, I found the interface for the program very unintuitive. Whatsmore, the resulting ISO file with only one architecture of Windows 7 updates comes in at over 5Gb... in contrast if you run the actual Windows Update feature from a fresh install of Windows 7 there's only up to around 1.5Gb of downloads needed. Part of the bloat comes from the fact that you can only select to download updates for the 'Global' version of Windows 7 and not English only. The author of the program is German so by default you have to have all the German specific updates, not to mention all the language packs and all that junk for the global regions. All in all it was good and relatively fast way of downloading all the actual update packages and putting them into one neat ISO archive, but I don't think I'd trust the program to actually update a copy of Windows as you've got no control over the unnecessary updates it installs... which kind of defeats the purpose of doing a clean installation with only the necessary updates. My trust for this program was further questioned when I went to download MS Office 2010 updates separately, where it tried to download about 360 updates totalling multiple gigabytes, if I remember correctly, where again doing it through actual Windows Update presents you with maybe two dozen updates at most. So god knows what it was trying to download there as I quit before it could finish. It's a very dubious program to say the least with inefficiencies that unfortunately detract from its obvious efficiencies.

[@tempstation810]

I wish I had been using this utility a long time ago, makes me think of all of the wasted time spent updating windows after clean installs.

[@metallicaofhammet]

Just an amazing tool, i wish i would found this tool many years ago, i cant remeber how many days spent updating windows with useless and slow Windows Update agent.

[@eph51912]

thanks a ton Eli, I wish I had known about this years ago! recently as you likely know, windows 7 hangs when you try to update it. so it was this searching which lead me to this tool and eventually your youtube page again :) just wanted to say thanks.

[@lindalewis8943]

Sorry Eli I should have mentioned that I ran Belarc before I started to run WSUS and it said I was 150 updates short.So I used WSUS and run Belarc again afterwards and it said I was still a 150 updates short.

[@tonyrk6800]

Eli, you're a life-saver

[@mrtechnostart]

Love From 2020 Thanks Sir From India

[@ZacAttackLeader]

I love your videos. Kinda seems like the tradiaitonal way tho... " Obtain updates from ... 1.) Internet 2.) External Device " No issues tho. ill probably be doing this from now on. thanks for the advice.

[@geraldcates7785]

Eli - Having recently retired from a Systems Admin position for a local non-profit, I must say that this sounds like a great product. The only caveat I must add is that I had been using the Microsoft version of WSUS (NOT WSUS Offline Updater ) for a while, and the major benefit of using their "original" version (info found at technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708429%28v=ws.10%29.aspx) is the fact that is it an on-going service that Admins use to KEEP the computers in their care updated. In other words, you would not have to download the entire 3+ Gigabytes of data each time you want to use the service. installing Microsoft's WSUS on a server allows you to keep the database of updates locally, and then only have to add the latest updates as they arrive. It certainly keeps the bandwidth usage to a minimum. Next time, maybe check your facts about who has, and/or hasn't put the product out? Frankly, I don't know why Microsoft hasn't sued the "newcomer on the block" for misuse of the corporate name WSUS.

[@gutenberg80]

MAN, you saved my life .....thank you very very much.....

[@gbasilveira]

awesome. I didn't know about this and I'll use it so often. With Win 7 new installations it takes days to fully update, and seriously it's just annoying not only for me but for clients, since they say it is always asking to reboot and when done it will take for ever. Thanks a lot

[@manchesterremix]

12:39 Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) delivers updates to corporate environments from Microsoft Update. This release adds new features and fixes issues found since the release of the product.

[@HDbacon]

Thanks, had no idea how to install and then I didn't know where to find the installer xD

[@martinbarnes6066]

only just seen this video.... your an absolute legend thank you thank you

[@runhead]

Thank you for your explanation. Greetings from Russia.

[@allanj917]

agreed. best tool ever . very useful to find anything with this program. old versions , new versions , free versions etc .

[@bbjunkie]

Videos looking really good now! I view in 360p but have noticed a massive difference in quality since your studio upgrade :-)

[@ricki-bobby]

Is it possible to slipstream all the updates generated by WSUS Offline Updater back into the original media so they are done at the time of install?

[@gareginasatryan6761]

the problem is that downloading Windows updates is not the main issue. From a vanilla W7 SP1, the 140 or so updates take about 20 minutes to download on a slow connection. The installation is the real nightmare. It could take hours to INSTALL all the updates. What MS needs, and I think W10 will start to do, is update rollups. So you don't have to install 140 individual updates. With OS X, it takes less than 20 minutes tops to upgrade from 10.10.0 to 10.10.5.

[@DontCallMeLenny]

How would you exclude the updates that would introduce windows spyware to your computer? Alot of the updates are hard to determine except be researching the specific update numbers.

[@mikesmultimedia]

My windows 7 Home Premium x64 install (on a MacBook Pro, under Parallels) was hanging after I began the Windows Update process. I've seen this problem before, so I again researched what the problem was, and how to work around it. I got lucky this time and found an article discussion WSUS Offline Updater. In fact, I was at a forum, and some guy had a one sentence response - "have you tried .. . .". So, I downloaded WSUS, and ran it. Yes, it did take a while for it to process the downloading of the designated updates. I did get stumped, however, as to what to do next after the USUS downloaded and prepared all the updates for my system. I began searching for the files. I first reviewed the log file (text file) and saw what it was doing and to where it stored the files. I then found the files in the WSUS directory structure "client/*.*" area. However, I was still incomplete because I wasn't sure how to proceed. I also didn't want to guess. What through me off was when I re-ran the windows update system form the start menu, the updates where 1) not installed by WSUS; 2) and the Windows Update process continued to hang. Therefore: I did a second research - search, and found a few obscure articles, and then this video. I was reluctant at first to spend time (which you need to do) to watch the video without knowing what the focus of the author would be. To my surprise, this video walked through a basic, 1, 2 3 of using WSUS. The most important section for me was when the author covered what to do after the download completed. That is, to run the "UpdateInstaller.exe" file under the "../client/*.*" directory. To the WSUS author's credit, I did not thoroughly explore their website for any instructions because it appeared to be a developer's style website for WSUS. Nonetheless, this video explained what to do, and in fact explained how to use the downloaded updates when updating other systems at other locations. (USB, Network shared drive, etc.) Thank you for being concise, and direct with the process of using this great windows update resource - WSUS Offline Updater.

[@f3rns]

Thanks for the vid. Awesome. I know this question is kind of silly but, do I need to download service packs in windows 7 even though I have an Iso of win 7 ultimate sp1 ?

[@mrmr5384]

hey Dude you are amazing!!!! All your videos are great!!! Let me ask something: Do i have to turn off the windows updates manually on my computer before run wsus?

[@julwin1985]

WSUS Offline Updater fixed my broken Windows 7 SP1 system. My own PC's last windows update dated a year ago. Since then it failed updating. Lazy me wasn't concerned about this, even though my work laptop updated regularily. But I've kept thinking "mine will catch up someday". It never happened. Searching for new updates didn't help, update search ui kept searching for hours with no end. So I got an official tool by Microsoft to get it fixed, but it couldn't get WSUS fixed. Then I tried to fix it as described on MS' official pages, but apparently some DLLs cannot be loaded. I've got stuck with a broken WSUS system. Latest suggestion was a system recovery. A system recovery dating back a year ago? Not gonna happen! Then I tried WSUS offline updater. It was worth to pass the little time to get 3.2GB downloaded. Also it was worth the little wait to get the updates installed. And then ~MAGIC HAPPENED~ my little windows updater found more updates later. And a day later it also found more updates. It is working again! - WSUS Offline Updater fixes broken WSUS on years old PC system. - WSUS Offline Updater updates much, MUCH, faster than the windows updater. - After using WSUS Offline Updater, even after currently generating an complete update, you may want to search for additional updates on your target system after offline update. My generated update wasn't complete to date, even though I've checked the proper boxes. But it helps fixing broken or for preparing vanilla systems nonetheless. EDIT: 00:24 Italian mode.

[@BenGillam]

Thanks :) great video - so as i understand it say i run this today and downloaded windows 7 updates, i could come back later run it again and just select say windows 8 or 10 to add them to the store? Or do i need to tick windows 7 8 and 10? Got a fileserver with plenty of space im looking to run from.

[@phwood512]

Hi Eli, if you choose "Automatic reboot and recall" in the installer, you don´t have to reboot by hand...

Very cool your channe, mainly the way you explain things. Your communication to user is quite well. Nice. Congratulations

[@heathbarker3004]

Awesome product.

[@manchesterremix]

Get from Ms web WSUS 3.0 SP2 delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements. Some of the features and improvements include the following: Integration with Windows Server 2008 R2. Support for the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients. Compliance Report Windows Update Agent (WUA) offers a collection of performance enhancements, user experience improvements, and bug fixes software updates.

[@sweetboyforlife]

great video man . but i only have a few quit questions to ask , i saw your computer was connected to the internet vie wifi when u was downloading the updates , now my question is do my computer have to be connected to the internet to download the updates first or your computer was just connected to the wifi while making the video ? and do the program install bacict computer drivers as well , like networking driver , graphics driver , ubs driver ect ect or it only install micro soft updates ? ?

[@sweetboyforlife]

its all good bro i figure it out already . the thing is i didn't really understand you the first time around in the video . lol

[@Fedemaugeri14]

Hi, greetings from argentina! ... this was very usefull for my work on computers, THANKS MAN!!!!

[@chaplainandrewkuslick8573]

Hello my name is Andrew I have a quick question my network adapters from Realtek are not properly installed would doing a update of Windows 10 fix that problem thank you in advance

[@PreppygirlxD]

Great vid Eli! Is there a way to push this Updater file to multiple clients from a 2008 r2 server and have it update all clients at once?

[@bvstwv]

You solved my entire life thank you VERY MUCH i was looking in the wrong places to fix Windows update, what was a bullshit, so thank you new suscriber here!

[@adiero]

Question: How do we update the updates? Say you run this in June, it downloads the lot and we save the 2gig lot to a share, then, later in December, if we run the generator again, will it append the new bits since june, or do we have to re-download the whole she-bang?

[@wathah323]

Thank you. Can I delete the old files after installing the latest updates? If so in what folder would the old files be?

[@fernandoassis6012]

Thank you very much. What would be of us if we didn't have the ones like you guys that mind in help the others? You all (among with the authors of programs like that) are people who know a lot, care of the others a lot and know how to spread your knowledge a lot. Thank you very, very much again.

[@yumonk243]

I am curious as to why the update for two different OS been bundled together ! For example in the newer version of this software the "Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012R" are bundled together ! Any ideas ??

[@autobotsNdecepticons]

WSUS is pretty good but I found Xdot to be a lot simpler and easier to use for the operating system hotfixes. WSUS's interface is not always clear. With Nlite and Xdot, WSUS isn't really necessary for XP.

[@bodrip1]

Sounds good, but is there something similar for Windows 10?

[@mauricetorres1479]

Yes, you can use some third-party products such as pdq.com or action1.com to manage windows 10 updates, when WSUS or SCCM stops working and you need to troubleshoot software update management. Pdq has established itself as a fairly reliable product for deploying software and installing updates on multiple computers, but unlike it, Action1 works from the cloud and is able to execute the update process on all computers even that are not always connected to the corporate network.

[@dave2amsterdam]

Hi Eli, I am not a computer geek so my question might seem a bit dumb to you. Ihave a problem with my laptop that has run out of space to install the windows updates. It only has 32gb ssd no Hdd. I read somewhere that with WSUS you could get windows updates installed on an external HDD. I have downloaded wsus offline 1102 and clicked on update generator.exe. It download a load of files which I copied to my external HDD. How do I get wsus to install my window updates on this external HDD. thanks

[@Cla_Disney]

I'm stuck at the last step: "Listing ids of missing updates (please, be patient, this will take a while).... It's already 2 hours and it won't do anything.. any suggestion?

[@martinkuliza]

hey Eli how are you mate I've been using Offline Updates for quiet a while now and it hasn't been necessary to ask this question until recently but... QUICK QUESTION RE : the whole thing about how Win 10 is such an irritating pain in the arse with the following the upates being installed KB3035583 and recently KB3173040 after installing WSUS offline updater DO YOU KNOW OF A WAY TO SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDE THESE TWO UPDATES FROM OCCURING it'd be helpful if you do otherwise, i'll have to remove them manually from the registry. not a biggie, but it would help if you knew the answer to this thanks mate ahead of time

[@BikeHelmetMk2]

You can remove them after the fact from an admin command prompt if you know the KB numbers. wusa /uninstall /kb:3173040 /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /norestart Reboot afterwards.

[@martinkuliza]

BikeHelmet thanks i'll try that, appreciate it

[@Noniksleft]

Why does the Win10 updater sit there doing nothing half the time, while I look at the traffic speed (such as the Comodo widget) waiting for ever for the updater to download the next file. YET WSUS just keeps downloading until its done??????

[@jessicalynn835]

So grate! That's very helpful for sb. like me, whose "Windows Update" has been unavailable 'cause of some kind of High-CPU-Usage problem. But just one question: could I manually download some .msu packs into "wsusoffline\client\w63-x64\glb" folder and then clicking "client\UpdateInstaller.exe" as my customized updating? Because your updater CAN NOT check what I already installed and just download every thing from Microsoft.

[@robins76jd]

Eli, I have a lot of machines that are offline. All of them are connected to a Domain, which also has no access to the internet. However, work requirements state that I need to keep them all updated. I've installed the WSUS role on one of the domain controllers, and setup the group policy info. But it (obviously) wants to connect to the internet to get the updates. Can I use this (or something similar) to manually update my WSUS server....thereby pushing the updates through my domain controller to all the clients? Therefore, I wouldn't have to install these updates on each machine.... Thanks, Jason

[@crashx4662]

Hey Eli... We have been using this for sometime now but my team lead handles the generator piece. I am currently working for a different business unit of my company and they are asking where the source of the updates come from. Can you tell me if you know where the updates are pulled from?? Thanks, Mike

[@han7l]

Good shows and very helpful, Eli.

[@battlerealms9600]

I have a question: when i click instaler.exe it doesn't give me the reboot and recall option.What did i do wrong?