Integrating Windows Update V6

[Shark007]

I did some further testing with this.

I tried it on a SP2.iso image that wasnt as up to date as my working image.

After installation, it said I need to download windows update files.

But, if you click the 'Details' tab, it tells you that you are about to install

the windows installer update.

I'm guessing this is a required element of windows update 6 working properly.

EDIT - its no longer a guess.. verified by installing windows installer

and trying WU6 again. Everything @ WU6 worked properly after installing the

updated windows installer

Here is a link to the windows installer update

Windows Installer 3.1 (v2)

further EDIT ....

if you download the above update you can extract the 5 updated msi*.* files from it with WinRAR, compress them, and also add them to your I386 folder.

BoardBabe, this may be your resolve.

Shark

Edited June 25, 2005 by Shark007

[BoardBabe]

Thanks shark007! I will definatly test this tomorrow

Should the compressed files

msi.dl_

msiexec.ex_

msihnd.dl_

msimsg.dl_

msisip.dl_

already be precent in the i386 dir? I did not get any message to overwrite when I copied them to i386.

Edited June 26, 2005 by BoardBabe

[Shark007]

yes, they should have been there. ( in I386)

and i dont remember nLite offerring to remove this.

strange it didnt ask to overwrite.

Shark

[BoardBabe]

Hmmm I just noticed something. They are there, but not compressed...

i386\msi.dll

i386\msiexec.exe

i386\msihnd.dll

i386\msimsg.dll

i386\msisip.dll

So just this secound I got them both compressed (new files) and uncompressed (original files) - Do I just delete the uncompressed once then?

[Shark007]

yes. its been my experience that it will use the compressed files

if you delete the uncompressed ones

Shark

[BoardBabe]

Ok, great! I'll give it a go on real format tomorrow and get back to you with some results. the regsrv will be run from (batchfile) the very top of cmdlines.txt before anything else (user creation and regtweaks).

[Shark007]

I really cant confirm running the

regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\wups2.dll

from cmdlines.txt will work.

in cmdlines.txt i have the command "runonceex.cmd"

This file requires a specific format.

i load a *.cmd file from within runoncex.cmd containing the command

regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\wups2.dll

I dont use WPI so I cant instruct you there.

The bottom line i'm getting at with my proccess is that the regsvr32 isnt run till after a full install of windows, and a reboot, altho i dont know if this is required.

Shark

Edited June 26, 2005 by Shark007

[blinkdt]

Silly question, but where can I download this latest version? FrankE9999 lists 15 files to download, but are they all necessary?

[BoardBabe]

Hmmm, ok I understand. So it might be better to run the regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\wups2.dll from my cleanup.cmd. This runs after WPI has completed. (At the same time as RunOnceEx method has completed the list of apps to install)

[Shark007]

blinkdt Posted Today, 08:48 PM

  Silly question, but where can I download this latest version? FrankE9999 lists 15 files to download, but are they all necessary? 

FrankE9999's process didnt work .. he asked for help.

if you count the windows installer update, i'm using 19 files

Shark

Edited June 26, 2005 by Shark007

[Shark007]

yes BoardBabe. thats the place to insert the cmd

Shark

[blinkdt]

if you count the windows installer update, i'm using 19 files

Thanks, Shark. The 50-cent question: where can I get those files? A link that would allow me to grab them would sure be great, been Googling and scouring the Windows update site with no success, starting to get frustrated.

[Shark007]

if you go to this url it will prompt you to install windowsupdate 6

WindowsUpdate v6

go ahead and install it.

Then you can follow my process to get the files from your system32 dir

Shark

Edited June 26, 2005 by Shark007

[blinkdt]

For sure, right there on page 1. Thanks.

Edit: But I count only 14 files, to include wups2.dll. What am I missing?

Another edit: OK, I see, the additonal 5 files come from Windows Installer 3.1. I need to take a break.

Edited June 26, 2005 by blinkdt

[Shark007]

The other 5 files are the windows installer updates

required for windowsupdate v6 to work properly.

Windows Installer 3.1 (v2)

as stated earlier, extract the 5 files from the update with WinRAR

msi.dll

msiexec.exe

msihnd.dll

msimsg.dll

msisip.dll

and compress them to I386 also.

Check for uncompressed versions of these files already existing in I386.

Delete them if they exist.

Shark

Edited June 26, 2005 by Shark007