Alternate Upadate For Microsoft Windows & Office

Some people maybe use update online Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in home or office directly connect to internet and used it to update. Update for one PC maybe not problem, but for too more one PC?...... how much bandwidth and time used for do it?.

CTUpadate
CTUpdate is an alternative method for applying Windows and Office hotfixes and service packs. CTUpdate will provide the ability to update Windows 2000, XP, 2K3 and Vista hosts in one swoop, not to mention updating Microsoft Office Products too!

Heisse offers an alternative to the update predicament, CTUpdate is a collection of script that requires only a few steps to reel in a current service pack at any time, combining all released Windows updates at the time of download. The download script acquires the complete update library for selected operating systems from Microsoft's servers and uses them to created ISO images for CDs or DVDs as desired.

It can be downloaded from here.

Installation
Unpack the zip file on a PC with a fast internet Connection.

Note: - Windows 2000 systems need to copy the reg.exe file from a Windows 2000 installation CD under \support\tools in the support.cab into the client\bin subdirectory. Windows 2003 system need to copy the reg.exe file from Windows\system32 directory of an existing copy of XP.

Execution:

Double-click the UpdateGenerator.exe file.


Select the variant of Windows you wish to download the Microsoft Update catalogue of patches for.

Select whether a DVD or CD ISO needs to be created.

Click Start.

Wget is used to download the patches from Microsoft and store them in a strict directory structure that should not be tampered with.

Once finished an ISO file is then created.

Burn the requisite ISO to a CD/DVD,

Visit the machine you want to update and double-click on UpdateInstaller.exe

Click Start. 25 Minutes later you have a fully patched system.


Note: - A temporary WSUSAdmin account is created in the install procedure to enable automatic reboots and installation of files without any user intervention required. This account is deleted after completion - best check though!

After the initial download of all service packs and hotfixes, every time you update, only an incremental update is performed, so essentially you could utilise a fast Internet connection to get all the files to start, transfer all of them to a slow or dial-up link and its then not really a pain to keep up to date. Every time you update a brand new ISO is created, overwriting the previous version.