Installing Cumulative Update prior to scanning for patches

[dantu]

Hi

Just to let you know that it's no longer necessary to install the Cumulative Update for IE prior to scanning for patches anymore. A lot of superceded patches were removed from wsusscn2.cab and it took less than 2 minutes for a newly-built XP machine to check for patches.

Thanks

Dan

[aker]

I think it is still required.
The problem did not occur because no new cumulative IE-update was released this patchday.

[Denniss]

A freshly installed system would have to check all these superseded updates unless M$ has done something in the update database to instantly mark them as superseded.

[dantu]

OK, well take this how you will. However, my XP image is missing 1.5 years of patches and during WSUS Offline's first run having commented out "set WUSCN_PREREQ_ID=2898785" in SetTargetEnvVars.cmd, it took only a few minutes to list missing updates.

Dan

[psycx]

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/01/16/windows-xp-resource-hog.aspx

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Thx!