MS download changes 2016-04-22 ?

[skhall]

Per Microsoft's Security Bulletin Release note today:

Effective as of the May 2016 security bulletin release, all Windows
updates will be available only via the Microsoft Update Catalog
(http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/), and will no longer be
available on the Microsoft Download Center
(http://download.microsoft.com/). Making the updates available
from only one location simplifies the process for our customers
of finding and downloading security updates.

Is this change going to affect WSUS Offline?

[aker]

Maybe. The security relevant update will still be downloaded from MS using wsusscn2.cab (contains the links from the Update Catalog); maybe the static ones will be affected, if MS decides to deletes the files from download.microsoft.com.
We'll have to wait and see...

[boco]

Links can be gathered from the catalog as well, at most we have to change some static ones.

[W74ever]

I very much hope that this new Microsoft policy is not going to affect us. Please keep us users up to date regarding this issue. Thanks