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[wquatan]

@aker

It's indeed AV-related ! Not clear to me why I didn't notice this during the first test I did earlier. When I disable AV before WSUSoffline is executing, it terminates within the same lapse of time as the pre-9.4 versions.

It's all related to the FOR-loop introduced in 9.4 and which seems to be needed due to the way MS is providing the information.

I'll have to remember to disable my AV every time I run WSUSoffline, because adding %TEMP% as an exception in my AV is a bridge to far. Just a pitty WSUSoffline isn't using an own subdir in %TEMP%. I certainly wouldn't mind to add that subdir as an exception in my AV.

Thanks !!

@WSUSUpdateAdmin

Could you please consider to use something like %TEMP%\WSUSOU instead of %TEMP%. That would be of a great help for those running into this problem.

[aker]

You can use a different path as temporary folder by creating a custom InitializationHook, which contains the line

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set TEMP=xxx

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[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

I'll have to remember to disable my AV every time I run WSUSoffline [...]

Please exclude text files from "on-access" scanning and/or disable "on-write" scanning.

Regards
T. Wittrock

[wquatan]

You can use a different path as temporary folder by creating a custom InitializationHook, which contains the line

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set TEMP=xxx

.

Where do I create that so that it survives updates ?

[aker]

Save the command as .\cmd\custom\InitializationHook.cmd
It will survive updates.

The code I'm using:

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cd "%~dp0..\.."
set WSUSOU_DIR=%cd%
cd "%~dp0"
set TEMP=%WSUSOU_DIR%\tmp
set DOWNLOAD_LOGFILE=%WSUSOU_DIR%\log\download.log
set WSUSOU_DIR=


When using this, make sure, that a folder named "tmp" exists.

[Denniss]

In my opinion it's problematic to redirect system variables to a temp folder in the WOU folder, WOU should per default (or per option in update generator) use its own temp folder.

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Hi.

In my opinion it's problematic to redirect system variables to a temp folder in the WOU folder, WOU should per default (or per option in update generator) use its own temp folder.

I would agree with this, if *Hook.cmd calls were not nested within setlocal...endlocal blocks, which they are.

Anyway, just using "%TEMP%\wou" or "%~dp0..\temp" instead of "%TEMP%" won't help without reconfiguring a paranoid AV scanner, so please consider:

Please exclude text files from "on-access" scanning and/or disable "on-write" scanning.

Regards
T. Wittrock