Hello. First post here. I hope my questions are easy to answer. I have browsed the existing topics, but haven't pulled it all together yet in my head. I will try to keep this short and to the point.
I have six Windows 7 machines. Two are Pro. Four are Home Premium. They were purchased over a period of several years. Some have never been connected to the internet. Some are 32 bit. Some are 64 bit. Some are laptops. Some are desktops. All different hardware. All at different levels of service.
First question:
I understand now that WSUSOU bases its updating on each machine's wsusscn2.cab file. My hope is that I can download a single set of all needed/possible updates for these machines into one set of directories - from yet another (unrelated machine) - and then use updateinstaller on each machine to update it from the common set of updates. Is this possible?
Second question:
How can I customize the updating process to bypass certain updates (e.g. the "spyware" updates)? I saw in one post that there was some sort of blacklist, but I don't know how to use it.