Unattended Hotfix Installation

[waster656]

Hi!

I am in the process of rolling out all the necessary hotfixes in our organisation. The trouble is my company will not pay for a third party software solution or invest the manpower in researching WSUS.

So I need to produce a compact disc with all hotfixes post Windows XP SP2. All the client PC's will be at differing hotfix levels.

I have read the MS documentation on this. Is it just a case of downloading all hotfixes to a network share or CD and create a batch file to perform an unattended, silent install of each hotfix one by one? What happens when a hotfix has already been installed, will the batch file continue installing the remainder?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Waster656

[ner]

Try this link, has been covered off many times...

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=74742

you could use my cmd bath file and use the suggested registry checks to see if the hotfix is already installed.

Edited June 20, 2006 by ner

[Sonic]

I have a shared folder with all hotfixes with a batch .. I always install on fresh system and old system too (sp2 minimum) and no problems. If you re-install a patch, there is no problem.

[waster656]

Thanks guys looks like you have confirmed my thoughts and thanks for the link to the batch file ner.