sysprep - cmdlines.txt and Windows Updates

[Guest]

Greetings al

I am using Sysprep along with imaging to deploy Windows XP onto our Labs workstations. I have a couple of things running from cmdlines.txt to further customize the OS. I also have windows group policy set to download and install Windows updates

Is there a way from within cmdlines.txt to force the newly built workstation to download and apply windows updates during the sysprep process? I know how to apply patches on a shared volume using qchain, but would like the computers to just query Windows update for critical patches

thank yo
David Summer
University of Idaho IT
Student Computing Labs

 

[Mike Kolitz]

There's a bit of a hack to make the AutoUpdate client check with your SUS
server or the Windows Update server, but I haven't had much luck with it.

The hack can be found here:
http://www.susserver.com/Tools/Tools-AU-ForceCheckToSUS.asp

The next version of SUS (now called Windows Update Services) promises to be
much more robust.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/wusbeta.mspx

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup & Deployment

Greetings all

I am using Sysprep along with imaging to deploy Windows XP onto our Labs

workstations. I have a couple of things running from cmdlines.txt to further
customize the OS. I also have windows group policy set to download and
install Windows updates.

Is there a way from within cmdlines.txt to force the newly built

workstation to download and apply windows updates during the sysprep
process? I know how to apply patches on a shared volume using qchain, but
would like the computers to just query Windows update for critical patches.