In the good old days you could install SUS on your “home” server and have your own Windows update repository, however after WSUS version “whatnot” the requirements for WSUS has by far outgrown what I wish to allocate on my home/test rig.. Hell I only have 3 machines and a few servers anyhow….
Never the less, when installing new test VM’s etc it would be nice to avoid all the patching since SP1 :-/ well, now you can 🙂
Martin over at Ghacks.net has reviewed an excellent utility that will do JUST that 🙂
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/03/windows-offline-update-8-0-released/http://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/25/wsus-windows-offline-update-updated/
Further uses is as he describe that you can download all patches for an OS (pt. Win 7 = 1.8GB since SP1) and put it on a stick so you can patch your friends and family’s machines with minimal Internet impact.
For now I have installed the thing and tried downloading patches for Windows 7, it seemed to work flawlessly – but I will try to do some install testing and see how this works out. Looks solid enough though.
Project web site;
http://www.wsusoffline.net/
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If you are working as a sysadmin and are working with Hyper-V you may be eligible for the Altaro’s great Christmas giveaway of 50 free licenses for Altaro’s Oops!Backup. http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/50-free-pc-backup-licenses-for-all-hyper-v-admins/
All you need to do is to fill out the form (name, email and a screenshot of your Hyper-V manager), you sadly need to use a “company” email but other than that it worked without a glitch and I got my 50 licenses within 1 hour.
Oops!Backup is a basic though fairly full featured backup software solution, it’s aim seem to be end users so it’s very simple to use and setup, but with a bit of tweaking you can configure it somewhat for advanced use also.
I’ll see about creating a small walk through video if I can get myself into gear 😐
An odd SCCM bug, some of our DP (Distribution Points) recently stopped working, the Task Sequence would hang during the “Installing Updates” step and would never finish.. Now the updates (files/packages) were all there and refreshing them did nothing to resolve the issue – at the end one of our external consultants pointed me to a hotfix kb2509007 which quickly resolved the issue (thanks to Thomas Marchussen, Edgmo).
Deployment would just get stuck here and never finish.
Odd and annoying problem which caused a lot of wasted time 🙁 – however the patch once applied and replicated worked like a charm.
WSUS on a stick – Windows Update Downloaded
Deployment, UtilityAltaro’s big Christmas Backup giveaway
BackupIf you are working as a sysadmin and are working with Hyper-V you may be eligible for the Altaro’s great Christmas giveaway of 50 free licenses for Altaro’s Oops!Backup.
http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/50-free-pc-backup-licenses-for-all-hyper-v-admins/
All you need to do is to fill out the form (name, email and a screenshot of your Hyper-V manager), you sadly need to use a “company” email but other than that it worked without a glitch and I got my 50 licenses within 1 hour.
Oops!Backup is a basic though fairly full featured backup software solution, it’s aim seem to be end users so it’s very simple to use and setup, but with a bit of tweaking you can configure it somewhat for advanced use also.
I’ll see about creating a small walk through video if I can get myself into gear 😐
A few screenshots;
SCCM Deployment – updates hang/stall
DeploymentAn odd SCCM bug, some of our DP (Distribution Points) recently stopped working, the Task Sequence would hang during the “Installing Updates” step and would never finish.. Now the updates (files/packages) were all there and refreshing them did nothing to resolve the issue – at the end one of our external consultants pointed me to a hotfix kb2509007 which quickly resolved the issue (thanks to Thomas Marchussen, Edgmo).
Deployment would just get stuck here and never finish.
Odd and annoying problem which caused a lot of wasted time 🙁 – however the patch once applied and replicated worked like a charm.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509007
Keywords; Sccm 2007, Updates, Stuck, Hung, Installing, Windows, Microsoft