Greetings jonas,
jonas wrote:If you expand the msp-file with 7zip you will see the file named !_StringData (without an extension). In this file you find the information you will see after installation under programs and features/installed updates e.g. "Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB3141535)". It is painstaking to examine the downloaded updates individually. However, you can orient yourself to the date of the files and their size.
So blowing dust off this question.
I did a fresh pull of the O2K7 updates today. Copied the entire resulting WSUSOfflineUpdate directory structure out of the VM up to our Samba server.
With my Linux host OS, I...
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/mnt/ldslnx01/stage/WSUSOfflineUpdate/client/ofc/glb$ cabextract -daccess-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b.cab
access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b.cab: WARNING; possible 15648 extra bytes at end of file.
Extracting cabinet: access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b.cab
extracting access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b/access-x-none.msp
extracting access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b/access-x-none.xml
All done, no errors.
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/mnt/ldslnx01/stage/WSUSOfflineUpdate/client/ofc/glb/access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b$ 7z e access-x-none.msp \!_StringData
7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)
Processing archive: access-x-none.msp
Extracting !_StringData
Everything is Ok
Size: 526
Compressed: 20641280
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/mnt/ldslnx01/stage/WSUSOfflineUpdate/client/ofc/glb/access-x-none_86ec1696dbc69a7a7357768477803c6eae644f0b$ mousepad \!_StringData
And there is found: KB3101544
Bingo! I have something I can cross reference to. Thanks very much!
Now to script automate the above prototype steps.
I am thankful,