Software Update: WSUS Offline Update 6.4

The German computer magazine C’T has released a program called Offline Update tool for a long time. With that program it was possible to provide Windows computers that do not have an internet connection with the latest updates from Microsoft. The program itself was developed by one Torsten Wittrock and he recently released it himself. The name has been renamed WSUS Offline Update for this reason and is now offered under an open source license.

In WSUS Offline Update you can choose from one or more languages ​​in a clear interface for Windows 2000 and higher and Office XP and higher. The program then retrieves all updates from Microsoft’s ftp server and optionally creates an ISO file of the whole per language or per operating system. More information about this program can here are being found. Last Friday, version 6.4 of WSUS Offline Update was released and its changelog looks like this:

Modifications in version 6.4

• Office updates up to 02/2010 integrated by static definitions
• Digital signatures of downloaded files will be verified if corresponding option is selected
• Installed updates’ determination implementation changed in order to enhance performance and become independent of WUA
• DoUpdate.cmd script will exit with errorlevel 3010 now if reboot/recall is required and automatic reboot is disabled
• Update for Root Certificates (rootsupd.exe/kb931125) updated to November 2009
• Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2 removed since Microsoft integrated it into FileFormatConverters.exe
• Office Converter and Compatibility Packs will now be downloaded also if Office 2007 (“o2k7”) target is selected
• UpdateGenerator script will now trigger download of .NET Framework components only for the first platform/target selected
• Info-Zip’s UnZip integrated because of persistent FTP download problems
• FTP proxy for wget removed because it’s not used any longer
• AutoIt script compiler updated to version 3.3.4.0
• DirectX End User Runtimes updated to February 2010
• DownloadUpdates.sh script encapsulates wget calls in doWget() function now for easier parameterization
• Fix: Windows Vista ISO images and USB copies did not contain .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Family Update files KB958483 and KB958484
• Fix: DoUpdate.cmd script attempted invalid automatic recalls under Windows Vista/7/2008(R2) and was unable to install SPs on Windows 2008 DCs
• Fix: CheckOUVersion.cmd script misleadingly reported outdated Offline Update version
• Fix: ISO volume ids and installation log file name adjusted to fit to project’s new name
• Fix: Removed o2k remainders in xslt directory
• Fix: DownloadUpdates.sh script contained obsolete reference to ../static/StaticDownloadLink-ifadmin.txt

WSUS Offline Update 6.4 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.