CTUpdate is an alternative method for applying Windows and Office hotfixes and service packs. It consists of two parts:# A program to automatically queries and downloads the latest packages into a repository.# A program that reads the repository and applies any updates to the local machine. Download it here: http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/offlineupdate/download_uk.shtml Note 1: CTUpdate cannot be run from a non-mapped drive, so make sure you map your repository first. The bat-file below expects %WPKG_DRIVE% to be set to this drive. Alternatively, you can modify the bat-file to temporarily map the drive. (net use x: \\ntinstall\wpkg /PERSISTENT:no) Then run it in order to create a repository containing the languages and systems you want, but you do NOT need to create ISO files. The repository will be placed in the client subfolder. Then copy the entire tree over to the WPKG software folder and use the following entries: <source lang="xml"><package id="ctupdate" name="Windows and Office hotfixes and service packs" revision="0" reboot="true" priority="0"> <!-- CTUpdate keeps its own state (by checking Windows and see which updates should be installed), so the wpkg integration is not entirely clean. The bat-file touches a statefile after the first successful run through. Increment revision each time the CTUpdate repository is updated, and it will be run again by wpkg and figure out what needs to updated itself. Prioritize below Office, as Office is updated by this as well. The uninstall simply removes the statefile - we don't provide for uninstalls of patches, however one might want to reinstall the package in order to rerun it. See ctupdate4\client\cmd\doupdate.cmd for other possible flags (IE7 install etc.) --> <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%windir%\ctupdate.done" /> <install cmd='cmd /c "%SOFTWARE%\ctupdate4\runwpkg.bat" /nobackup' /> <upgrade cmd='cmd /c "%SOFTWARE%\ctupdate4\runwpkg.bat" /nobackup' /> <remove cmd='cmd /c del %windir%\ctupdate.done'/> </package></source> The referenced bat-file:<source lang="dos">%WPKG_DRIVE%cd %SOFTWARE%\ctupdate4\client\cmddel %windir%\ctupdate.donecmd /c doupdate.cmd %*</source> For '''proper reboot cycles''' you will need to add a line to ctupdate4/client/cmd/DoUpdate.cmd. See diff: (make sure you don't add it to the SuggestRecall part)<source lang="diff">--- C:/Users/Kalmi/Desktop/DoUpdate.cmd Sat Sep 13 19:41:10 2008+++ G:/wpkg/software/ctupdate4/client/cmd/DoUpdate.cmd Sat Jan 31 21:57:03 2009@@ -736,6 +736,7 @@ echo Installation successful. Please reboot your system now. echo %DATE% %TIME% - Info: Installation successful >>%UPDATE_LOGFILE% echo.+date /T > %windir%\ctupdate.done goto EoF :Cleanup</source>This will ensure that wpkg will only consider the install successful when ctupdate ends up in InstSuccess (and not in SuggestRecall). So if a restart is needed wpkg will restart(saying the the install failed, but it requires a resart, so I'm going to restart now) and try the install again... REDIRECT [[Category:Silent installers for Windows HotfixesHeise Offline-Update]]