Download WSUS Offline Update 6.3

The German computer magazine C’T has released a program called Offline Update tool for a long time. With that program it was possible to provide Windows computers that do not have an internet connection with the latest updates from Microsoft. The program itself was developed by one Torsten Wittrock and he recently released it himself. The name has been renamed WSUS Offline Update for this reason and is now offered open source.

In WSUS Offline Update, you can choose from one or more languages ​​in a clear interface for Windows 2000 and higher and Office 2000 and higher. The program then retrieves all updates from Microsoft’s ftp server and then makes an ISO file of the whole per language or per operating system. More information about this program can here are being found. Last Friday version 6.3 of WSUS Offline Update was released and its changelog looks like this:

Modifications in version 6.3

• Support removed for Office 2000 since Microsoft discontinued support for it on July 14th, 2009
• Office updates up to 11/2009 integrated by static definitions
• WSUS Offline Update will now fake SP1 on Windows XP SP0 target systems
• CopyToTarget.cmd script will now only copy newer files
• Installation part won’t any longer evaluate the “Office Update Inventory Tool Catalog” (invcif.exe) since Microsoft discontinued support for it on August 1st, 2009
• Fix: UpdateGenerator and UpdateInstaller dialog scaling could lead to zero size dialog dimensions
• Fix: DownloadUpdates.cmd will set FTP proxy for wget now