What happens to patches when SP is reinstalled?

[JVdB \(Pandora\)]

Hi all,

Currently I'm deploying a lot of SUS servers. Everything is working great,
but I'm wondering about one thing: When a SUS clients has al post Service
pack patches installed (through SUS) and you then run the Service pack
again, what happens to all the post service pack patches? Do I need to
reinstall them all? Or is the Service pack intelligent enough to not
overwrite the patched files?
If I do need to reinstall everything, is there a way to reset the SUS
patching on that client? So that it will automatically download all patches
from the SUS server again?
I looked everywhere on the Internet but can't find anything about this
subject ...

Thanks,

 

[Lucy [MSFT]]

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