Downloading only recommended / critical updates

[dynamisdk]

Hi everyone, I found out this little application today and it looks like it might be able to massively help with my installtion media.

I've carried out a test on a VM installation and found it works perfect but there is one thing I'm not sure if its able to do.

Is there anyway I can prevent any downloading of the non-critical / optional fixes?

Ideally I would like to be able to block downloading of any Internet Exploder updates. I'm not sure how granular the configuration is, but having a quick look I can't see anything obvious which does allows there to be blocked. I selected the opton to download the .NET fixes as there tend to be the ones which take longer but I can't see anything to say yes or no to any other aspects of the downloads.

Any advice?

[dynamisdk]

Sorry, I think I may have misunderstood what the application does.

I ran it yesterday and having taken a look over the log it would seem it downloaded a lot more then it installed.

Am i right in thinking, this doesn't actually look at what updates are missing on a client and download only the ones which are required. It actually downloads all the ones available, then at install time only installs the updates needed.

Would that be accurate?

[Gerby]

Hello dynamisdk, and welcome to the forum!

You're right. In a first step WSUS Offline Update downloads all available security-related updates for the selected operating systems and/or Microsoft Office. As the tool's name already implies, the update on one or several computers is done offline in a second step, so it must have all possibly needed updates available at that time (e.g. on a DVD or a USB stick).

For more background, read on in the thread Coverage of WSUS Offline Update.

Greetings
Gerby