Beginner questions...

[DanH]

Hi there,
I seem to have missed this in the documentation. In any case, please point me to it..

Target systems are Win7 Pro 64bit, fresh out of the boxes, only Office 2010 activated and some software de-installed with DeCrapifier.
I have run UpdateGenerator on a server and selected all the necessary packages (basically everything) for the target system type and Office 2010.
Network access to the client subdirectory is setup anonymous from the client PC (the target).

I have run UpdateInstaller on the client on the same day from the mounted client drive and selected the necessary packages to install. Basically all I have downloaded just before, including autoreboot.
The client PC installed a bunch of patches/updates, rebooted a couple of times and then stopped.

Then I rebooted and activated Windows Update on the PC. After a while, it wanted to install 56 (!) additional updates. How comes?

Do I have to start UpdateInstaller manually several times until really all updates are installed? I thought the purpose of UpdateInstaller was to really install all updates, especially if automatic reboot was selected.
Do I misunderstand something?

Dan

[harry]

Please see Abdeckung des / Coverage of WSUS Offline Update and viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2499 !

[DanH]

Ah. Got it. Thanks.
Pitty there is no way to update all with WSUSOFFLINE... including non.critical updates.
Dan

[boco]

There simply isn't any public catalog covering all updates.

[DanH]

Perhaps a silly question since I cannot imagine someone else has not thought about this...
But could not Microsofts free software WSUS (http://www.microsoft.com/wsus) be used to generate a list regularily and then provide that list as the "public catalog"?
Perhaps it's less a technical than a legal issue to use Microsoft's WSUS for this?

[boco]

WSUSOU uses the exact same catalog (wsusscn2.cab) as MS' WSUS. In other words, the number of updates covered is the same. WSUSOU also has some static definitions, so it is actually able to download/install more than WSUS.

[DanH]

I see. Thanks for the explanation.