RT7 Lite and Windows Updates

[berkshireicttech]

Apologies if this is an obvious question, but if I have used RT7 Lite to pump in updates into a Win 7 image, then 6 months down the line, pump more updates into the image, will this keep the previous lot of updates caked in or do I need to pump them all in again?

 

Thanks guys

[Arthur]

It's better to start with the original Microsoft image because over time tons of updates will be superseded and you are less likely to have issues. e.g. if you ended up integrating a botched update like KB3004394 when you created the new image you would always have problems from that point on.

 

By the way, RT7Lite is no longer being developed so you would be better off using WinToolkit.

Edited January 20, 2015 by Arthur

[berkshireicttech]

Hi Arthur.

 

Thanks for your advice, I will have a look at WinToolKit. So what is the best practice for this? This is how I started and have continued.

 

* Started with vanilla Win 7, installed all the microsoft products like office, visio, visual studio, .NET ect.

* Enabled Microsoft update

* Kept updating until no updates left.

* One by one going to Download centre and downloading each update that was needed.

* Then pumping those in via RT7 lite.

* Then every couple of months, grab a machine, deploy via mdt. Then run windows update, then do the same thing again and download all updated that it took.

* I was going to then just update the Wim that I had updated previously with the newer updates.

 

The issue I see now is that I'm not going to know if there is a superseded update, as even if I started from scratch I was still going to use the existing updates from months ago, pump those into the fresh image along with the newer ones. Do I in fact have to start all over again, get a fresh win 7 image and update it then download them all again from download centre?

 

If there is an easier way, I would very much appriciate someone enlightening me as it seems like its going to be a knightmare!

 

Something else to add to this is that we currently do not have WSUS set up yet, and I am doing this because we are doing a laptop refresh of all staff laptops, and at the moment my 1st line guy is having to run Microsoft update at the moment on every machine which includes around 100 updates and its taking a long time, especially when you have around 50-60 laptops to do!

 

Thanks in advance

[computer_expert]

Something else to add to this is that we currently do not have WSUS set up yet, and I am doing this because we are doing a laptop refresh of all staff laptops, and at the moment my 1st line guy is having to run Microsoft update at the moment on every machine which includes around 100 updates and its taking a long time, especially when you have around 50-60 laptops to do!

 

Have a look at WSUSOffline - run that to download all the updates once, then copy them to a usb drive/network share and run it on each machine. Only issue I've found it that the reboot and recall feature doesn't always work on Win7 (although I'm not sure if it is still like that in the latest version).

[berkshireicttech]

Thanks computer_expert, sorry it took this long to send my thanks, I have been off work. This could very well save me ALOT of time.

 

Much appreciated