slipstreaming critical updates into installation share

[Aaron T]

Hello,

Was wondering if anyone knows where to search to find
which critial updates are needed after SP1a. I would like
to slipstream them into my network instalation share.
However i'm having difficulty finding what ones I need.

Thanks,

Aaron

 

[Chris Lanier]

Just choose Sp1 as the OS and Find Updates.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp?corporate=true

 

[Awoll]

Thanks Chris,

Got another question however. In the deploy guide. It states to extract the
file to a temp folder. Then copy the .cat file and various other binary
files to the i386 folder. However when i extracted the file, I get a sp1
folder, sp2 folder, and a common folder. In the guide it tells you not to
pay attention to the symbols or the update folders. However that is where
the .cat and other files are located. And what do I use. I have sp1a
installed into the shared install folder. And why does the guide tell you to
extract the binary files and copy them into the destination i386 folder, and
then tell you to keep the exe file in the svcpack directory and to include
the exe fileto run into the svcpack.inf file? By copying the binarys and cat
into the i386, doesn't that update the file durring install? Wouldn't this
be doing it twice, or at the very least causeing an error because it was
allready installed? If you could help me out on this it would be cool.

Thanks,

Aaron

 

[George S. Ellis]

Since you have SP1 installed, you need the files in the SP2 folder. Note
that with the example you need to go a step further. The KB824146 files
also need to replace the OLE32.DL_, RPCRT4.DL_, and RPCSS.DL_ files in your
root i386. Rename the compressed dl_ files and put the expanded DLLs from
the hotfix in i386. This prevents your system being vulnerable during
installation as this particular worm can infect the machine during install
on the network.

I posted this on the 29th of Sept:
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I posted this reply on the 22nd. This is a copy and paste. There is a KB
that also tells how to slipstream service packs.
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Some MS hotfixes are poorly executed. You
may need to extract some of these using the /X switch. Then you would run
Update after reworking them. If the hotfix produces a SP1 and SP2
directory, you need the SP2 files. Using KB824146 as an example, you want
to have the files in a directory. The Common files generally go into the
Update directory. My 824146 directory contains:

824146
- rpcrt4.dll
- ole32.dll
- rpcss.dll
- spmsg.dll
- spuninst.exe
- <824146\update>
- kb824146.cat
- update.inf
- update.ver
- update.exe
- spuninst.exe
- spcustom.dll
- spmsg.dll
- eula.txt

Note that I have spmsg.dll and spuninst.exe in both 824146 and 824146\update
directory. SOME of the hotfixes do not work unless the spuninst.exe is in
with the fixed files. It is a feature.