Robou wrote:It needs additional labour, some lists need to be updated after thorough inspection of the downloaded updates.
Normally it doesn't require any additional work for users of WSUS Offline. If the lists are updated in a timely manner, rollups are excluded from installation (and maybe download?).
These lists seem to be all located under client, so probably have no influence on the download.
Hm. I'm not sure. I use an older version that doesn't know about Rollups and Security-Only packages, so I maintain these lists (for) myself. Unfortunately the list files are different in the new versions so it wouldn't help anyone if I said what I do...
The lists were updated without my doing from October 2016 through July 2017 (for obvious reason February is missing).
Correct. WSUS Offline downloads the lists every time it runs and if they're newer than the local ones.
My conclusion is to postpone the download as long as acceptable in order to allow WsusOffline to edit the lists.
That's the easier way that doesn't require additional work on your side. The other way is to edit the lists yourself.
Then run a script with "findstr" in order to check if the lists are updated.
findstr is not really needed (date would be enough), on the other hand it makes sure unwanted updates don't get installed.
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Perhaps it would be a good idea to write a HowTo (which files to edit, where to find the KB numbers, etc) for such situations so that users can help themselves at least.
Regards
Dalai