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CHAD RENDELL
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Windows Update

Hi All..

I have a faily easy question for most of you.
Is there a way to download all MS Updates for Win 2003 without having to run WIndows Update on the server.. Esentially I want to have all the current updates put onto CD.

Or if you have any other ideas I would appreciate it
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Ron Kinner
Honored Contributor

Re: Windows Update

It's pretty simple on my Win2k. You go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it changes to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp (I think each operating system gets a different page) then you select "Personalize Windows Update" then check "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog under See Also" then Save Settings and you will get a new option called
"Windows Update Catalog". You can click on it and it will let you choose:
"Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems"

Select your operating system and language and then hit Search.

I mention that my operating system is Win2K because I know that XP gets sent to a different page which may or may not have the same possibility. Don't know about win2003 but I can see options to search for win2003 updates on my page.

Ron
CHAD RENDELL
Advisor

Re: Windows Update

Does that give you the option to Download the updates so I can burn them to CD?
Ron Kinner
Honored Contributor

Re: Windows Update

Yes it does. You can select all of them by adding each to the list and then download them all at once to a folder on your PC. You can then copy them to a CD.

The drawback is that they only want to install one at a time with a reboot between each and there doesn't seem to be a text file index where you can tell what each one does. So you might want to make your own by copying the text from each catalog entry and pasting it to notepad.

Supposedly you can get around the reboot each time problem by:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296861

Ron

Jon Finley
Honored Contributor

Re: Windows Update

I pull each update out of their folder tree, and place them into a /patches folder on a CD, with the following sort of batch file:
(Example only, your drive letters may be different.)
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install.cmd
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setlocal
set PATHTOFIXES=D:\patches

%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB819696-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB823182-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB823353-x86-enu.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB823559-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB824105-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB824141-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB825119-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB828741-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB832894-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB833987-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB835732-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB837001-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB837009-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB839643-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB839645-x86-enu.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB840315-x86-enu.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB840374-x86-ENU.EXE /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsServer2003-KB828035-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsMedia-Q828026-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsMedia9-KB819639-x86-ENU.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\NDP1.0sp3-KB867461-X86-Enu.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\SQL2000-KB829358-8.00.0884-ENU.exe
%PATHTOFIXES%\ENU_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE

%PATHTOFIXES%\

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Jon
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