Windows 7 updates slow

[rj07thomas]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had come across this before? Doing a build 'n' capture of W7, downloads all the updates just fine and starts installing them but then gets stuck on a particular update. No particular error, just hangs. So far, stuck at 145 of 190 and 179 of 190.

 

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[anyweb]

does the windowsupdate.log reveal anything

[Peter33]

I see this on my MDT Windows 7 x64 captures. For me it seems like the client just runs out of memory. Microsoft is working on a hotfix for the Windows update client, which will modify the way of metadata processing.

At the moment im runnning the patching after the build process, dircetly with Windows update and then i start the capture manually afterwards.

[rj07thomas]

ah, thanks both. Re: windowsupdate.log do you mean on the client or server? Sorry, probably a daft question. Peter33- thank you! I'm trying to do this on loads of different clients, including virtual, so there's a chance I can knock up a Hyper-V VM with bucket loads of memory, tho' of course this isn't going to help if it's a memory leak. It's just really odd that the W8.1 build went through really smoothly, I'm used to forgetting really obvious things when deploying (like forgetting to include SMSSLP=, which annoys me because it's such a stupid, easy mistake) but these builds have actually been going through to the update process.

 

Anyway, thanks for your suggestions- I've got something more concrete to go on now.

 

P.S .neither of you know anyone or any resources that might help with a really annoying cipher suite error from iis through a firewall? Completely off the point but worth mentioning!

[anyweb]

i mean on the client itself

[Chris_J]

I should have read this one before. My OSD downloads and installs the updates reasonably well, but always seems to sit at the last update for 30 minutes.

[rj07thomas]

Hi all, I just wanted to say I'm not ignoring you! Believe it or not, more than a week later and I still don't have a reliable W7 capture although with Peter33's comment I'm having more luck with a Hyper-V VM with 8GB of RAM.

 

I've continued to forget key things- like the SMSSLP Line :-( - but it is rebuilding again now and has 192 updates, which is encouraging as my last update batch was 190. I also had some automated updates rules in place, so I started from scratch with them as I couldn't tell whether the updates were causing problems. I'm back to static update packages/ groups now, which isn't ideal but for a gold build doing a new build every few months with a bigger batch of updates shouldn't be too much of an issue.

[Peter van der Woude]

Small note, the SMSSLP parameter is not used anymore in ConfigMgr 2012. The state locator point functionality is now part of the management point. That also means that you can and should use the SMSMP parameter for that.

[Peter33]

Hi Guys,

 

back from MS Ignite and sharing a side note i catched there during a session. Microsoft is planning on an updated ISO for Windows 7 which includes all updates until now and later (no date was mentioned).

They realised that it's no fun to install 200 updates and wait 8 hours for an Image build.

The crowd was very pleased to hear that.

[Peter33]

OK, i forgot some other things not less important.

 

SP1 for SCCM 2012R2 and SP2 for SCCM 2012 should be out this week and they will fix the multiple reboot issue for Windows updates during a task sequence. There are also improvements for application handling during task sequences.