Question is if these machines don't have internet access, why is keeping them up to date an issue? If the answer is they have network access but not internet access then why not just set up a machine to run WSUS for you -> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb332157.aspx It's practically a fire-and-forget solution once you configure it. There's a hell of a lot of work involved in manually updating them & you're bound to miss stuff. I built a new desktop at home a couple of weeks ago on Windows 7 & I had over 120 updates to apply. That was before the 15-20 released just this week and that machine doesn't have MS Office or Visual Studio of any kind installed.
Palbinder Sandher Software Platform Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] Sent: 11 July 2013 15:46 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Windows updates So Burn is needed? (I am not surprised, given that it would be several files to install that are likely internally transactional and the rest, but just wanted to confirm.) We don't have internet access on the machines; that's sort of the point - to get them a collection of stand-alones over their special connection back home. Right now this is a few tens of megabytes of updates delivered monthly. Is this large as far as burn goes? I see on the list about others installing SQL Server Express and .NET etc. which sounds about that order. (Especially as some updates to .NET will be sent our way.) Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: July-11-13 10:35 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Windows updates Grab the appropriate Service Packs for the OSes you're supporting from http://search.microsoft.com/en-us/DownloadResults.aspx?q=service+pack , and Bundle them into an installer with burn? Sound like it could end up a pretty massive installer though, so you might want to look into the WiX elements that allow the installer to download the service packs on demand (assuming the target machines have internet access when installing), rather than packaging them into the installer itself. I haven't done the downloading thing (although I probably should be), so I unfortunately can't advise on that, but I don't think it's overly complicated. Alain -----Original Message----- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] Sent: July 11, 2013 10:12 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Windows updates Hi folks, Is there a way to bundle-and-install the standalone updates that one would get from Microsoft to update Windows (e.g. security updates with the "Windows Update Standalone" file type or whatever it is exactly)? If so, where should I start looking to do this? (We have machines which are too intermittent to be domainified and hence use our Active Directory / SCCM solution. Right now we just throw them an archived directory and a VBS or something; but this requires administrator. If we use an MSI we can use a previously developed mechanism - used for userland applications etc. - to run the package elevated which I doubt I need explain.) Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. 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