Hi people from WSUSOffline.
Windows 8 come with .NET 4 preinstalled, but not .NET 3.5 SP1 (this means: 2, 3, 3.5 and 3.5 SP1). And this is not everything about it, but in the end that releases are even not offered via windows Update, so they cannot be installed by WSUSOffline via the normal method.
This was IMO a retarded decission by Microsoft, and when you think you've installed all the updates from a computer and it's ready to go offline and run everything you find that that program made in .NET 2 or 3 (there are plenty of them!) need additional components to be downloaded.
This article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2785188/en) explains how to enable .NTE 3.5 in Windows 8 using the features panel and taking sources from the installation disk. So I wonder: is there any way WSUS Offline could "install" it by triggering the "add features" mechanism and providing a path to the sources that are commonly taken from the DVD? Is the package in the DVD the same as the standard installer that WSUSOffline already downloads or it's a different one? Is it available publicly on the MS servers?
Kind regards.