WSUS - Download latest Windows Update Agent

[talk2bearup]

I noticed that with the latest MBSA release (2.01) a new version of the Windows Update Agent has been released, and in turn is now required for use with the MBSA tool. Thus, my office is currently researching ways to distribute the latest WU Agent in a simple fashion. WSUS can download and distribute the WU Agent, but our server only seems to have version 2607 of the update agent. MBSA 2.01 requires Update Agent version 2694 (Details here), which only seems to be available via stand-alone install (Click here)

So my questions are:

1. How does WSUS acquire the latest Windows Update agent? Is this process started manually? Is it logged somewhere?

2. Has the WSUS-distributable version of the Windows Update Agent been released? Maybe I'm just spinning my wheels looking for something that's not even out there yet.

Thanks for any help you can offer, and let me know if I can clarify my issue in any way.

Matt Bearup