http://microsoft.com/mbsa
Is probably what you want. You'll have to go through a 2-or-3 step process, since you don't/can't have net access, but it can provide you what you need. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline patching Vista / Microsoft Update Catalog searching Hi all, I'm working on getting our first stand-alone Vista computers set up. By "stand-alone", I mean these computers are not and cannot be connected to *ANY* network -- including the Internet. No Ethernet, no modem, no nuttin'. The only way files get to these computers is by sneakernet -- carried on removable media like diskettes or CDs. I'm looking for a way to easily obtain the various Microsoft critical/security updates for Vista. Then I can burn them to a CD for installation on these PCs. Keeping these sorts of computers current with all patches is a new requirement for us, so I've got nothing in place for this. On the corporate network, I use WSUS 2.0, but that doesn't help for this. The MS Office site at least gives you a way to drill down to this stuff. I was hoping I could go to the Microsoft Update Catalog <http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/> and get a list of the needed updates. I could then download them all, and script something to install them. But I'm not having much luck searching the catalog. I'd like it to show me all post-SP1 critical and security updates for i386 (x86-32). That doesn't seem to be possible. The search syntax appears to be fixed at a boolean AND of all search terms, with no NOT operator or anything. :-( I also couldn't find a way to select just i386. All my searches are finding hundreds and hundreds of matches. The Microsoft Download site appears equally ineffective. I can't easily find a way to specify post-SP1 updates, or i386. Even selecting the "Security Updates" category seems to find stuff that's not really a security update. If a payware product is the only way to do this, I can go that route, but it has to support offline usage as described above. Suggestions welcomed! advTHANKSance -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
