re-installing removed updates

One of our admins had to remove a group of MS updates downlaoed from our WSUS
server becuae of an issue with an application. We now want to re-install
these updates one at a time to determine which one is causing the issue. The
server is Windows 2003. Is there a way to do this?

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jbodkin wrote:
> One of our admins had to remove a group of MS updates downlaoed from our
> WSUS server becuae of an issue with an application. We now want to
> re-install these updates one at a time to determine which one is causing
> the issue. The server is Windows 2003. Is there a way to do this?

> jbodkin wrote:

>> One of our admins had to remove a group of MS updates downlaoed from our
>> WSUS server becuae of an issue with an application. We now want to
>> re-install these updates one at a time to determine which one is causing
>> the issue. The server is Windows 2003. Is there a way to do this?

Truly, for the sake of testing update compatibility in this scenario, since
the problem is not with WSUS distribution, per se, but the updates
themselves, I'd suggest setting up a test machine and installing the update
one-at-a-time via MU. The total testing time will be significantly faster if
you do the detection/download/installation interactively from MU, than it
will be doing approvals one-at-a-time from the WSUS console, manually
initiating a detection on the test server, waiting for the download, and
having to 'check back' for the completion of the download, and then manually
initiating via the WUA UI.

Plus, if you do need to rollback an update to test another pathway, it won't
be necessary to keep changing approval statuses on the WSUS server.


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Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)

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