WSUS Offline Update VS cStatus

WSUS Offline Update mentions (6)

• Windows updates on an air gapped network.

  I think he was talking about https://wsusoffline.net/ Which I used forever ago but seems like it's abandonware since 2020. Source: about 1 year ago

• Windows Update Error 0x80073712

  That being said, you can try generating a full update package with WSUSOffline and let it pull all the latest available updates, and then use that to update the problematic servers and see if you're lucky. Source: about 1 year ago

• Windows Server for Internet Cafe to Push updates offline.

  It doesn't sound like there's anybody around with sufficient knowledge to properly administer Active Directory; so you should probably avoid it. There are also any number of RMM utilities that handle Windows patch management. And there are also manual tools like WSUSOffline that could be leveraged. Source: over 1 year ago

• Rebuilt 2012r2 DC. Twice. Anyone have advice on applying patches? It hung on one, and I don't know which.

  Use WSUS Offline to bring your base install as up-to-date as possible first, and then run against WSUS or Windows Update for anything left. Source: over 2 years ago

• What would you do if asked to manually install Windows Updates on 50+ PCs?!

  Https://wsusoffline.net/ is an option if you can't make a dedicated WSUS server. Source: almost 3 years ago

cStatus mentions (0)