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Is there anything special I have to do to move the files?

I've run the download updater, and run the client installer - everything seemed ok.

I copied the entire directory to a freely accessible location on the NAS in my local network at home and I ran the client updater from there on another machine, and it 'seemed' to work . . . sort of I get the odd warning and error.

Before I get specific with regards to warnings or errors, I'd like to ask this - can we not move the client directory around like this?

Thanks

No. You may move the wsusou-dir as you want.
Except for paths containing some special characters (e.g. "%", "!" and some others), but UpdateGenerator will show you a warning, when trying to run wsusou from such a directory.

It doesn't work from UNC paths, though. Connected network drives should be fine.

boco wrote:It doesn't work from UNC paths, though. Connected network drives should be fine.

Just nitpicking: that's only a client problem. And it's not related to moving the whole wususoffline directory from one place to another.

I realize that it has been close to a year since I last posted on this topic.

I have since needed the aid of wsusoffline for another clean install.

Just to be clear:

Question 1:
Moving the entire wsusoffline directory from one machine to another is perfectly fine (save possible file corruption in the transfer).
Is that correct?

Question 2:
If I were to leave the wsusoffline directory in a location on my NAS that was accessible via windows (without requiring a password to access) that had an path of:
\\NAS\Volumne_1\wsusoffline\
. . . is ok, but running the \\NAS\Volumne_1\wsusoffline\UpdateGenerator.exe file may produce some "Error messages" in the log but that is as a result of it residing on the NAS
Is that correct?

Question 3:
Running the .\wsusoffline\UpdateGenerator.exe file is independent of the machine it is on - it simply updates the repository.
Is that correct?

Question 4:
Running the .\wsusoffline\Client\UpdateInstaller.exe file simply looks at the machine that is running the file, and compares what is installed there to what wsusoffline has in its repositories and updates the system with what it has.
Is that correct?

I think I finally have this figured out, but I just want to be sure.
Thanks for the help everyone.

Question 1: Perfectly fine, if you leave the tree structure intact.
Question 2: AFAIK it doesn't run from UNC paths and will try to associate itself a drive letter.
Question 3: Correct, as long as it is a supported OS (because of the tools required).
Question 4: Yep, it uses the Automatic Updates service for that. As long as that service is not Disabled it works.

Question 2: you need to mount it as a network drive. Then run it from the network drive. It is not possible to run it from an UNC path.