Download WSUS Offline Update 6.6.5

Earlier this month, version 6.6.5 of WSUS Offline Update was released. This program makes it possible to provide Windows computers that have a slow or no internet connection with the latest updates from Microsoft. By simply checking one or more operating systems, office packages and languages, all available updates are downloaded from Microsoft’s ftp server. When the updates are in, an ISO file is optionally made per language or per operating system. Other computers can then be updated quickly and easily via a CD or DVD. WSUS Offline Update has support for Windows 2000 and later, and Office XP and later. The following changes have been made in this release:

Modifications in version 6.6.5

• NOTE: This version is supposed to be the last one supporting Windows 2000 (see Microsoft support lifecycle)
• Office updates up to 11/2010 integrated by static definitions
• Self update capability added (Thanks to “Ernst.Eiswuerfel”)
• Optional automatic system shutdown on download completion added to UpdateGenerator script (Thanks to “rswrc”)
• Update for Root Certificates (rootsupd.exe/kb931125) updated to October 2010 (Thanks to “Matjes” and “Denniss”)
• OS language detection corrected and enhanced according to
• Fix: Late popd in DownloadUpdates.cmd script lead to logging error (Thanks to “boco”)
• Fix: Missing hash computation after download of Office Update Inventory Tool Catalog file subsequently lead to false audit errors (Thanks to “Frank1”)
• Fix: UpdateGenerator and UpdateInstaller scripts will terminate if system’s environment variable TEMP contains a trailing colon (Thanks to “mth404”)
• Fix: KB951847 (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1) added to installation exclude list due to misleading warnings (Thanks to “rednaxela”)
• Fix: ISO creation under Linux lead to invalid “builddate.txt” format (Thanks to Ulrich Windl)
• Fix: FAQs enhanced (Thanks to “Lenge”)