Installation order / dependencies

[larsg]

Hi there,

i am currently using wsus offline to download all patches from our local wsus server, and provide them seperately via OPSI (software delivery).

i have option wsus_only set in ini file.

i have 2 questions:

a) the downloading script echo's the official microsoft download url for every update, but when i check the log file, it shows our wsus url. is this intended? which one is correct now? very irritating at least.
b) the updates i receive from our wsus server also include those updates we exclude from distribution over actual wsus, is there a way to prevent this?

for installation, i don't use the scripts provided with wsusoffline, and would like to avoid changing this, if possible.
so i have one more question:

c) how do you handle update dependencies, like update x requires update y to be already installed? is there a distinct exitcode i can check on, if an update is missing dependency updates?
by looking through your scripts, it seems you just rush through all updates and install them at once, skipping reboot.

i found out that exitcode 14005 appears to predicate this case, but it's only for one specific update, as from what i found on the internet.

thanks in advance.

[aker]

a) The URL in the log file is the correct one. Could you post a screenshot of cmd.exe showing the MS URL? Then we could take a look at the issue.
b) wsusou downloads the updates the WSUS has locally stored. Normally these are the updates, you accepted (I don't know the English word as I'm normally using German software). This looks like some kind of issie with the WSUS server.
c) wsusou asks the Windows Update Agent (WUA) to provides the list of updates. The are sorted in a way, you can install them one by one.

[boco]

Normally these are the updates, you accepted (I don't know the English word as I'm normally using German software).

Admin-approved. IIRC, not approved updates aren't even downloaded? If yes, you would need to exclude the prohibited ones manually, each month.

[larsg]

a) The URL in the log file is the correct one. Could you post a screenshot of cmd.exe showing the MS URL? Then we could take a look at the issue.

damn, just did another fresh download this morning. i will post it here once i got around to do it again.

b) wsusou downloads the updates the WSUS has locally stored. Normally these are the updates, you accepted (I don't know the English word as I'm normally using German software). This looks like some kind of issie with the WSUS server.

well i got a list with non-approved updates by our admin, and did a diff accross the downloaded ones, had a few matches.
combined with the issue mentioned above, i suspected that the non-approved updates were still downloaded from the ms site.
i will check the logfile for the non-approved kb-numbers and see if and where they get downloaded from, and take it to our admins.

c) wsusou asks the Windows Update Agent (WUA) to provides the list of updates. The are sorted in a way, you can install them one by one.

sweet, i think i know in which direction i have to look then.

thanks for the perfect service here!

[larsg]

so i just tried again,
shows that the downloads from ms site came from entries in the static lists. dumb me, could have thought of that.

didn't touch any of the static lists.
are these updates listed here neccessery for update-performance and/or -troubleshooting?
or is there any description as of why these updates are preselected statically?