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One thing I have never understood about WSUS Offline is how to ensure I have a completely "refreshed" update layout - even if I have not updated in a long while.

Case in point - I want to rebuild my Win 7 machine but have not run a WSUS Offline "update" in a year easily. The WSUS Offline directory structure is still present on my machine - but what exactly should I do to get current?

Do I blow away this old install and grab the latest install and start over? And if so - what do I do after next months patch Tuesday to ensure my USB directory contains the very latest and greatest updates - while dumping any stuff that may have been superseded etc.?

Do I simply just keep running UpdateGenerator.exe via my current version? Will that auto clean the old, add the new and leave the required?

Appreciate any comments.

Cheers!

Sonic.

1. The WSUSOU program itself has evolved, you'd need to update it. With fairly recent versions there should be an auto-update procedure. If not, extract the new version into a fresh directory and move the directories with the updates (w61, w61-x64 etc.) from the old to the new client directory.
2. To update the patch repository, simply re-run the UpdateGenerator (the 'download' part). It will download new updates and throw out superseded ones. It will skip over anything else, so you can always do a download run to make sure it is current.

Also when running UpdateGenerator wsusou will update itself, if required.

I already said that, but, depending on how old the previous version is, might not (yet) apply.