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As fas as I found out WSUS downloads at first ALL patches (for e.g. Win 7 since SP1) and then (in the second step) installes only those which are NOT installed yet.

Simplified in other words:

WSUS downloads e.g. all pos-SP1-patches 1,2,3,......, 177,178,179,180
and installs only 178,179,180 if all other patches 1,2,3,....,177 are currently already installed.

Is there a way to tell WSUS only to download those patches which are NOT installed yet?

In other words only to download patches 178,179,180 in the sample above?

Peter

pstein wrote:As fas as I found out WSUS downloads at first ALL patches (for e.g. Win 7 since SP1) and then (in the second step) installes only those which are NOT installed yet.

Correct.

Is there a way to tell WSUS only to download those patches which are NOT installed yet?

No. WSUS Offline is intended to be used on multiple (offline) computers before going online to use Windows Update. Since these computers may have completely different patch level, it wouldn't make sense to download only the missing ones, or get very complex and complicated (download only those missing on all of them? if so, how to determine this?).

If you know for sure that you don't need certain updates, you might want to take a look at the exclude function - see files wsusoffline\exclude\custom\*.txt and the documentation in wsusoffline\doc directory.

Regards
Dalai