4 replies to this topic

[bernt]

Hi,

I'm wondering what the current state of affairs with Autopatcher is, and how up-to-date Autopatcher releases are. I've used Autopatcher for more than 5 years and love its ability to download patches once and then distribute them to other machines.

In the past year of so I started noticing that not all patches were included and machines still required updating at Microsoft Update. This seems to be getting worse: I just updated my XP installation (80MB download), but Microsoft Update afterwards recommended 140MB of critical updates. I checked some of these patches and they were dated well before the release date of Autopatcher.

So on all machines I still need to connect to Microsoft Update, defeating an important purpose of Autopatcher. Am I possibly missing something?

Thanks,

Bernt

[dkdk_it]

I've updated Windows XP release a few days ago.
Are there any issues?

[bernt]

After I applied the Autopatcher XP release successfully, Microsoft Update installs the following:

High-priority updates

Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2572067)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2572073)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008 x86 (KB2572078)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2518870)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2487367)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2539631)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB2536276)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2478663)
Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB2538242)
Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB2538243)
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB2596972)
Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2553072)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2584052)
Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2493523)
Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2539581)
cheers, Bernt

[ViroMan]

Did you also download the .NET release package and the Office 2003 release package or did you only select the XP package?

[dkdk_it]

Uhm... only one hotfix may have an issue... KB2536276 should be installed with XP release.
The others hotfixes isn't included in Windows XP release.

OK... I'll verify it...