lola wrote:However when I look in my Windows update option (Win 7) the PC does not seem updated in the Win update screen and Win update history.
Completely normal.
Why is this?
Because MS programmed it this way. There are two different types of updates (one of them is a wrapper for the other one, but that's not important): MSU and CAB. Updates installed by MSU appear in BOTH lists - Installed Updates and Update History - while CABs ONLY show up in Installed Updates. Since WSUS Offline mainly uses CABs to install the updates, most of them don't show up in Update History.
Now to the "Most recent check for updates" and "Updates were installed" you see in Windows Update. This thing Windows Update in Control Panel is a Windows Update Client. WSUS Offline Update is a Windows Update Client, too. These are two different clients for the same thing; and there are even more Update Clients out there. They don't know anything about each other, and the Control Panel thing only shows its own data, when updates were installed and stuff.
Both of them use the Windows Update Agent (WUA, not to mix up with WU Client), which runs in the background, to check for updates, check for missing ones and so on. So all WU Clients will recognize updates installed by other WU clients.
Is there a way to correct it?
No, there isn't. It's just the way it works.
Is there an easy way to verify my PC is actually updated (except running WSUS again)?
Yes. Look at Installed Updates, not Update History. And you can check for updates in Windows Update; the system (WUA) will recognize installed updates and only show the missing ones.
I hope that wasn't too much details and confusing, but I did my best to explain the background of all of this
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Regards
Dalai