Jordan Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 WSUS Offline Update 10.9: Download Security Updates ONLY WSUS Offline Update 10.9 ships with a new option to download "security only updates" instead of "quality rollups" for Windows 7 and 8.1, and Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2. Microsoft switched to a new update format recently that changes how updates are provided for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and the server operating systems Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2. Two update packages are released every month for the operating systems instead. The first package includes security updates only, and is not cumulative. It is not offered through Windows Update either. The second package is cumulative, and includes security and non-security updates. WSUS Offline Update 10.9: download security updates only Windows customers who are concerned about privacy, download the security updates only to avoid any new telemetry collection features and other invasive features. Users had to rely on the Microsoft Update Catalog up until now to download the security patches. The latest version of WSUS Offline Update changes this as it comes with an option to download security updates only. WSUS Offline Update is a popular third-party program to download updates for various Microsoft operating systems, Office, and other company products. You can check out our review of WSUS Offline Update 8 here for an overview. The program is updated constantly to take into account update related changes, and to include new updates that Microsoft releases. WSUS Offline Update 9.3 is a portable program that you can run from any location. To enable the downloaded of security updates only, do the following: Download the latest version of the program from the developer website. Extract the archive to a location on your system. Run the program afterwards. Check the "Use 'security only updates' instead of 'quality rollups'. This works only for Windows 7 and 8.1 on the client side, and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 on the server side. Here is what happens in the background when you enable that option: Updates released prior to October 2016 are downloaded just like before. Security-only Updates are downloaded starting October 2016. Quality rollups are not downloaded starting the same month. This means that non-security updates are not downloaded anymore when you make the change. Regardless of that, updates are only downloaded to the local system but not executed after download. Closing Words The new option that WSUS Offline Update 10.9 ships with adds missing functionality to the program. Considering that you could only use it to download the quality rollup patches up until now, it is now once again usable by users who only want to download and install the security patches. SOURCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorio Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Tried it and is an excellent option to download and install Windows and Office updates offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46&2 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Modifications in version 10.9 - C++ 2013 Redistributable Runtime Libraries updated to v. 12.0.40660.0 (Thanks to "epguy9") - Ability added to use 'security only updates' instead of 'quality rollups' for Windows 7, 8.1 and Server 2008/2012 (R2) (x86/x64) systems (Thanks to the mods) - Fix: Revised list of scan prerequisite updates for Windows Vista and Server 2008 (x86/x64) (Thanks to "Dalai", "lmacri", "SIW2" and the community) - Fix: Revised ExcludeList-superseded-exclude.txt - Fix: Revised ...\client\exclude\ExcludeList.txt - Fix: Corrected adjustment of service 'Windows Update' (wuauserv) - Fix: Download part erroneously excluded Security Update kb3163246 (MS16-091) for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 http://www.wsusoffline.net/ http://download.wsusoffline.net/ (archived versions too!) http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsusoffline109.zip I saw this was in "Guides & Tutorials" but thought some links to homepage and d/l would be handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46&2 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Here is a very very good tut for WSUS Offline Updater: http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/wsus-offline-update/ NB: at the top of page it says "The Unofficial Windows 10 Reinstallation Guide" but this is just a link to another tut (IMO stupid place for a link). Anyways scroll down just slightly for tut on WSUS Offline Updater. Also this tut is good for any machine, not just a Dell®. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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