I am getting ready to push sp4 out to 150 machines. I
have tried to edit the update.inf file to disable the
wuauserv (autoupdate) service...it worked with sp3, but
it doesn't want to work now. The sp4 install will error
out with a cryptographic service error.

Is there any way to shut this service down in the sp4
install routine?

Thanks

Scott

There really isn't any way to disable Auto Update via the Update.inf on
SP4. Update.exe will check and make sure that it is working off of a valid
INF. Also, shutting down the cryptographic service will generate the same
error.

You probably will want to disable Auto Update via a script that runs after
the SP4 install.

1. Open up regedit and go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\wuauserv

2. Set the START value to 4.

3. Export the wuaserv key to a file called autoupdatedisable.reg

4. Create a batch file that kicks off the SP4 installation and imports the
saved registry file after installation:

"reg import c:\autoupdatedisable.reg"



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