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Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised and amused


If that software is available to the public it would be a great service to name or link it if you can find out what it is.


It's not public because of licensing. But it's a simple reimplementation of https://www.wsusoffline.net.

Source code here: https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline


Hahah, that's actually awesome. Of course someone out there put in the leg work to work around the licensing issue, and then shared it to the (minor?) masses.




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