I think the best thing you can do is keep your image up to date. The software updates step will fly though in no time.
Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Owen Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] Tips on speeding up Software Updates during TS? Hi guys, I saw this interesting blog post today, titled 'Why do Software Updates take so long' which was pretty great! http://www.kraftkennedy.com/why-do-software-updates-take-so-long/ Here's the core takeaway: In the screenshots above we see that the Windows Update Agent handler starts at 2:01 and doesn’t finish its scan until 16 mins later. It is during this time that the task sequence step ‘Install Software Updates’ appears to hang or freeze. After this scan completes you then see any updates that need to be downloaded and installed. Doesn’t matter if there is 1 or 100. The delay before downloading is approximately the same, while the Windows update agent is properly initialized and configured to work for software updates in a task sequence. Now, I've definitely seen this before, where the Task Sequence freezes at 'Install Software Updates' for about 15 minutes, and it doesn't seem to matter when in the TS I add the Software Updates step. I've just completed offline servicing too, so I'm kind of perplexed as to why updates would even be available again. Do you guys have any tips on this point? How do you tend to handle Updates? Should I just built and capture once a month?
