As I seems to spent half my life rebuilding machines for people, I want something at home which is essentially WSUS3, but I want to fire up a virgin machine and point it to http://my_local_wsus_thingy and for it treat it as if windowsupdate.com

Should make life a bit quicker than waiting for all the patches etc to download. Also a bonus for all of my VMs, as I seemed to spend the morning patching them :-(

I have a MSDN licence (via work), so I am guessing I could download what ever I need to make this happen. I suppose it could even be a VM, but something lightweight on my normal win7 machine would be idea.

How about a transparent caching proxy? I remember it being pretty simple to set one up using Squid on Linux, but that was over a decade ago so the details are a little vague

I assume the proxy would time out older content, so if I had a lull between building machines, then it would have to go and get the content again. I have seen ISO downloads of the windows updates for various OSs, but I would like something which just installed the latest (round up patches), rather than patch 1.0 and then 1.1, and then 1.2, etc when I could just stick on 1.4 (which is in essence what wsus/windows update does).

what about windows home server?...

I believe it is possible to hack WSUS in a WHS install, however I was hoping for something a little more lightwight. Plus the downside of WSUS is that you need to set the registry of the client machines to get it to pull in the updates.

I did download WSUS3 sp2 last night, so I might see see if I can install that onto my main w7 box and see what happens.... I had better be careful what packages I approve though, otherwise it could be downloading updates for weeks!

How about a transparent caching proxy? I remember it being pretty simple to set one up using Squid on Linux, but that was over a decade ago so the details are a little vague

One way is to use IPCop and the Update Accellerator add-on. Works a treat.

One way is to use IPCop and the Update Accellerator add-on. Works a treat.

I might have a look at that later. I installed WSUS3 sp2 this morning, and I have my PC pointing to a w2k3 server VM (running on my PC) just as an experiment for the moment. The issue seems to be waiting for the client to check in with WSUS and get the updates it needs.

The default setting is to check every 20 hrs, but this can be altered in gpedit.msc.

A program for this would be great. I am forever waiting for 1-2GB of updates everytime i fix a laptop/pc! Some sort of app you could run on a normal PC would be great that would download and store them and then just pull them down without the hassle of setting up a server and WSUS.

Can't you stream the patches into a new build disk?

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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-build-a-slipstream-windows-7-install-disc-715117

Can't you stream the patches into a new build disk?

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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-build-a-slipstream-windows-7-install-disc-715117

Everytime some new updates came out you would have to build a new slipstream disk :-( This gives me more effort, I might as well let the machine just grab the updates from windowsupdate! I still build quite a few win xp machines, and I don't really want to get into the whole slipstreaming for multiple OSs - too much effort!

Well I installed WSUS and let it download all the patches, and set my PC to grab updates from it, but I have now found this:

http://www.wsusoffline.net/