Custom Updates

[Cababs]

If you have updates in the Custom folders for ..\Client\Static and ..\Static are these overridden when superseded by MS or WOU, or are they installed regardless?

[aker]

No, they won't be removed. wsusou will try to install them.

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behaviour on Windows 8 / 8.1: I don't have a machine to test, but I think it will behave the same way as Win 7
behaviour on Windows 7: it just installs files, which are newer. It won't overwrite newer files. The old ones will just be copied into winsxs.
behaviour on Windows Vista: I don't have a machine to test, but I think it will behave the same way as Win 7
behaviour on Windows XP: all files will be overwritten (tested with an IE8 security update and an IE8 compatibility view update)
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[Cababs]

I thought as much.

Since superseded updates are not needed I should remove them from the custom downloads. Is it a simple case of looking the a superseded file and remove those numbers from my lists?

[aker]

You can take a look at .\exclude\ExcludeList-superseded.txt. But this will only list he superseded security updates.
For the rest you have to take a look at Microsoft's support page.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/<kb-number>

I could create a version of ListMissingUpdateIds.vbs, which lists all Updates for the currently running OS & uses Windows Update instead of wsusscn2.cab.

[Cababs]

oh that would be useful, there is no point downloading update if they are not used.

however there is no rush, I will look through .\exclude\ExcludeList-superseded.txt.

When I look through this file there was still updates for Windows 2000. Is this generated from wsusscn2.cab?

[aker]

It is generated from wsusscn2.cab. And the catalog file still includes Windows 2000.