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Ciao,

first time using WSUS Offline Tool. We have internal WSUS server for Windows 7 and 8.1. For testing purpose we installed WSUS Offline Update 9.5 and setup download updates only "Windows 8.1 /Server 2012 R2 (w63 / w63-x64) - x64 global" and set WSUS to http://server05 (our internal WSUS).

in UpdateGenerator.ini [Miscellaneous] section there is
wsus=http://server05

Start WSUS Offline Update and after 1 hour we found is downloading all from download.microsoft.com and nothing from our server05. Example:

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--2014-11-30 18:29:32--  http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/C/6/DC69B595-9C62-4B31-B154-B3722250D296/Windows8.1-KB3000850-x64.msu
Resolving download.microsoft.com... 95.100.96.235, 95.100.96.227
Connecting to download.microsoft.com|95.100.96.235|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 745662073 (711M) [application/octet-stream]
The sizes do not match (local 66754517) -- retrieving.

--2014-11-30 18:29:32--  http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/C/6/DC69B595-9C62-4B31-B154-B3722250D296/Windows8.1-KB3000850-x64.msu
Reusing existing connection to download.microsoft.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 745662073 (711M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `../client/w63-x64/glb/Windows8.1-KB3000850-x64.msu'

100%[======================================>] 745,662,073  776K/s   in 16m 13s

2014-11-30 18:45:45 (748 KB/s) - `../client/w63-x64/glb/Windows8.1-KB3000850-x64.msu' saved [745662073/745662073]


We check this update KB3000850 and IS in our WSUS server05 like many Others..... Why WSUS Offline Tool get it from Internet ?

Many thanks

Regards
Davide

wsusou uses some static definitions. Every update, which is included by a static definition will be downloaded from MS, all dynamically determined updates will be downloaded from your WSUS server.

@WSUSUpdateAdmin
Is it possible to get the WSUS links, if the UpdateID is known?

Hi.

aker wrote:@WSUSUpdateAdmin
Is it possible to get the WSUS links, if the UpdateID is known?

Yes, of course, as it is done by WOU, but this is nontrivial (see CreateDownloadTable.vbs).

Cheers
Torsten

What about writing the UpdateId into .\static\StaticDownloadLinks-....txt (in a similar way as it's done for files, which need to be renamed) and using it to get the URL for the WSUS?

That's impossible because you need the cryptic SHA suffixes for folder translation.
Cheers,
Torsten