Windows 7 Updates Download
Angelo Dearring
We are running the 21H1 Pro W10 ISO. Does anyone know how to add a step in an MDT task sequence that tells Windows to automatically install all pending Windows updates, then reboot? We don't have WSUS set-up, as this is a one-off project.
Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7, and as such, doesn't release new updates. Any updates available via Windows 7's Windows Update utility are ones that have not been installed since support ended on January 24, 2020.
Microsoft no longer supports Windows Vista, and as such, doesn't release new updates. Any updates available via Windows Vista's Windows Update utility are ones that have not been installed since support ended on April 11, 2017.
Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP, nor versions of Windows that preceded it. While there might be Windows updates available for your Windows XP computer on the Windows Update website, any you see will be updates released prior to the end of support date for Windows XP, which was on April 8, 2014.
To disable Windows updates, go to Settings > Windows Update > Advanced Options > Pause updates. You can pause updates for up to 35 days. After that, automatic updates will resume.
To update Windows drivers, go to the Device Manager, right-click the target device, and select Update Driver. From there, you can automatically search or browse your computer for driver updates.
Trying to figure this out. It almost seems that our pa220 is blocking windows updates. See my first pic, does session end reason threat mean it stopped the connection? I ask because I cannot get this update to download on any windows 10 pc in my environment see pic 2, it starts to download and stops at 2% then errors out. . Yet it will download at my house.
Another thing with MS updates is that they use Akamai. This means that things gets bounced around frequently and the PAN URL/threat cannot keep up with a lot of the ways it does things. You can always try and download the patch manually, .
Background: I have a really slow internet connection (the highest download speed I've seen on it is 3.5Mbps, though I only pay for 3Mbps), and Windows 10 does updates all the freaking time. Like, so much. This obviously bogs down my connection regularly. I also have 7 machines on my LAN that are updating on this basis. All-in-all, I'd say about 50% of my internet traffic is Windows Updates.
This brings me to my question: is it possible to setup a local server (I already have two local Hyper-V host servers) that can download and serve all these updates to my LAN PC's, so that the LAN PC's can use it, and it can download all these updates once instead of each LAN PC downloading it's own set of updates?
In terms of serving updates locally and managing which updates are downloaded and made available, then WSUS is the answer you're looking for. The restriction is that WSUS itself only serves content to those machines which request it, it doesn't control which machines on the network do so. Put another way, you GET updates from WSUS, not the other way round.
Outside of AD your options are to configure it on each individual machine using either local group policy, or via the registry. Details of the settings and both methods are available here - -gb/help/328010/how-to-configure-automatic-updates-by-using-group-policy-or-registry-s - but crucially you will need admin permissions to set them up, which may be an issue if they're already domain joined to a work network.
The only real option I can think of to control guests usage would be to setup QAS and bandwidth limits on your connection, and then restrict their download speed. That way allowing them enough bandwidth to have basic access, but without being able to use it all to get updates.
In this latest example i am scratching my head about I have a server with 2 Physical XEON CPU's and 48 cores total and 768GB of ram. This is a powerful modern server that costs about $40k so its quite fast, and windows updates take a hour to run on a system that has just been freshly built and nothing else installed except the Hyper-V role and features required for that role and had basic config like networking and virtual networking and the usual regional settings and so on. ( i think this still happens if you try to update as soon as the Windows installation finishes anyway)
This is one example i have seen this many times on servers of all brands and configurations And even on a server this powerful it takes the same amount of time as say a desktop PC does with a SSD. So what is going on here, what is the technical reason it takes so long to install updates?
Then you also need to compare what updates are they ? Servers usually have more updates as there are usually more functions and features while Win 7/10 usually have more 3rd party applications installed.
Then even if you have a CPU with very fast cores, very fast storage and/or very fast internal transfer rates, you cannot really determine if there are timers within the update to do internal testing of the updates (applications or software) ?
Interesting comments above, especially about the need for another 7 GB for Windows updates. That made me think of all the cheap 32 GB storage Windows (not fit for purpose) netbooks that are sold where about 28 GB is already in use and the need to attach USB sticks to provide extra storage*. Updates for them takes expertise (maybe not in abundance for people who buy these devices) and patience. As someone who uses Linux, I find the update with Windows frustratingly slow. I guess that in time MS will find ways of speeding it up.
I would look at disk access. Throw all the RAM you want at a problem, if the process involves a lot of writing to disk (like, say, OS updates do), the RAM will just be sitting there asking the disk "are you finished yet?"
Bottom line and has been stated in many forms above, It's a crap load of code and a lot of data in each update. Rewriting drivers, replacing different kernels, and dealing with updates for multiple built-in components. Same reason it's got so many bugs that have to be constantly patched. They need to change it back to an operating system only rather than a Suite of Products crammed into an operating system. It would be more secure and less of a pain to update.
Windows updates operate on the assumption that other workloads on the computer are more important and are intentionally throttled so they don't saturate the network or IO. the idea is not to degrade application performance too much since most updates run in the background and don't require a reboot. This can be frustrating when you are doing a clean install from out of date media and then have to wait for the latest cumulative patch before proceeding.
I insist on slip-streaming the latest cumulative updates into "golden images" on a monthly basis whenever I have the appropriate licensing and resources to do so (VL Windows, a Server VM for Deployment Services and the like).
Hi,I have been trying to get the windows updates sensor working for windows servers. We are hosting several windows machines for customers that are NOT part of a domain.Our PRTG server can connect to all those servers through a management gateway, but I have not been able to get the windows updates sensor working.
Furthermore: in the PRTG for the sensor to work on a windows machine, you need to enter the windows-machine credentials WITH the computername as the domain.
So every windows machine needs its own credentials, you cannot use the root with credentials to work on all servers. that doesnt work.
And the sensors need to have Negotiate authentication NOT the default Kerberos authentication
I am not entirely sure if this works in every situation, but it works for me, so yeah, great to have this sensor added and working now.
Windows updates are important releases like software updates, Windows security patches, Windows patch updates, hotfixes, and security updates done by Microsoft periodically to fix Operating System (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003, etc.) or Windows Software/Application related issues. The Windows systems and applications in any enterprise need to install these windows security patches and software updates to secure themselves. Software vulnerabilities can create security weakness, corrupt critical system data or cause system unavailability that can be a nightmare to Network administrators. An automated solution that can update patches as and when they are released with minimal human interference can make a huge difference in the security and productivity of the organization. So, Administrators are constantly looking out for a solution that scans for vulnerabilities, identify missing Microsoft updates, apply security patches for Windows and mitigate risk.
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