Technet vs. Windows Update

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I am the owner of a computer repair shop.
We reinstall the OS on several machines per day due to excessive spyware
and/or virus infections.
We are CONSTANTLY downloading windows updates for machines that we have
formatted and installed a fresh copy of 98/XP/2000/etc.
I subscribed to Technet in hopes of a quicker and more efficient way to
update these "fresh installs", but the information is overwhelming!!

Let's take one of the most common scenarios as an example... and maybe you
all can tell me if this is possible:
Fresh (re)installation of XP Pro on a machine:::: We first install a local
copy of XP SP2... then what?
1)Shuffle through the (in excess of 30+) CD's since November of 2004,
installing each and every update/download/hotfix?
2)Or... is there a way to load all of the current updates/hotfixes/downloads
that are contained in my technet CD's, as well as the ones that we get each
month - onto my server and point Windows/Microsoft Update utility there
instead of Microsoft's servers, letting that utility show me which updates
are there that this particular machine doesn't have, giving me the option to
install them?

It would seem that MS would love to make this easy for us, taking a load off
of their servers and Internet connections, but I haven't found an easy
solution???
@$@#$%^
 
Anando,
Sounds like a fairly decent solution to the problem, but why doesn't technet
provide the same thing rather than, again, having to DOWNLOAD every update...
when they are all supposedly on the CD's/DVD's???
Anyway, I thought I would give it a shot... downloaded the server and
client... thought I would install the client on a XP Pro SP2 machine first,
and I immediately get the error:
"Microsoft Windows Update Auto Update requires Windows 2000 SP2 or Windows
XP."
As I said, this is on a XP Pro SP2 machine... is this an indication of the
operability of this application?
 
Anando,
Sounds like a fairly decent solution to the problem, but why doesn't technet
provide the same thing rather than, again, having to DOWNLOAD every update...
when they are all supposedly on the CD's/DVD's???
Anyway, I thought I would give it a shot... downloaded the server and
client... thought I would install the client on a XP Pro SP2 machine first,
and I immediately get the error:
"Microsoft Windows Update Auto Update requires Windows 2000 SP2 or Windows
XP."
As I said, this is on a XP Pro SP2 machine... is this an indication of the
operability of this application?
 
=?Utf-8?B?UGF0cmljayBMLiAtIFVT?= said:
We reinstall the OS on several machines per day due to excessive spyware
and/or virus infections.
Click to expand...

Why not just clean the infections to save time?
 
Most of the machines we 'rebuild' have hundreds of infections... if you are
at all familiar with some of today's spyware apps, you know that you cannot
completely remove a majority of them... even if you use norton, ms
antispyware, pest patrol, ad-aware... ALL OF THE ABOVE WILL NOT
CLEAN-CLEAN-CLEAN most of the machines we deal with... even if they do all
come up clean, and the system is very very slow, a rebuild will generally
make it 100x faster!!
So to answer your question in short... cleaning doesn't save time in these
situations.
 
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