Depends.
B&C: Plain original wim, Win 7 SP1 x64, 3 LPs, IE11, .net 4.5.2, Office 2013 requires about 170 updates. :( (I wish there would be another SP) Tried offline servicing, over 140 applied, probably because of the LPs, but there are still so many updates applicable afterwards >100, which is odd, but I couldn’t figure out why. And I’ve tried adding those LPs to the wim also, result is the TS gets interactive after applying the image (windows setup, another thread here) and fails. Anyway, figured I don’t care that it takes long, as long as it finishes. The patching part takes easily 8hours, where is either stuck with “downloading” at 99% or waits at the last update with “installing 177 of 177” for hours and then continues. It doesn’t install additional ones later on, so I guess it actually did it. Oh, and the iis worker process on the site server goes above 2GB of memory (I’ve increased the allowed memory). -R From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murray, Mike Sent: Montag, 1. Juni 2015 20:12 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Tips on speeding up Software Updates during TS? 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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Owen Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 10:57 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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?
