Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1 convenience rollup

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New Windows 7 SP1 convenience rollup makes image creation much faster

We’re happy to announce today that we’re making available a new convenience rollup for Windows 7 SP1 that will help. This convenience rollup package, available to download from http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3125574, contains all the security and non-security fixes released since the release of Windows 7 SP1 that are suitable for general distribution, up through April 2016. Install this one update, and then you only need new updates released after April 2016.

And since this update can be injected into Windows 7 SP1 media, it’s fully supported to mount a Windows 7 SP1 image (WIM file), then inject this update into it. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744559(v=ws.10).aspx for the details of how to do this.

This convenience update is completely optional; it doesn’t have to be installed and won’t even be offered via Windows Update – you can choose whether or not you want to use it.

We hope that you find this convenience rollup package useful. This same convenience rollup also applies to Windows Server 2008 R2.

Monthly Rollups

Also today we are announcing that non-security updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 (as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2) will be available as a monthly rollup (fixes rolled up together into a single update). Each month, we will release a single update containing all of the non-security fixes for that month. We are making this change – shifting to rollup updates, to improve the reliability and quality of our updates.

These fixes will be available through Windows Update, WSUS, and SCCM as well as the Microsoft Update catalog. We hope this monthly rollup update simplifies your process of keeping Windows 7, and 8.1 up-to-date.
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KB3125574

Update for Windows 7 32bit:
Code: 
http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2016/05/windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x86_ba1ff5537312561795cc04db0b02fbb0a74b2cbd.msu

Update for Windows 7 64bit & Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit:
Code: 
http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2016/05/windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64_2dafb1d203c8964239af3048b5dd4b1264cd93b9.msu
 
Nice one! Wish I had this a few weeks ago....would've made reloading Windows 7 on my parents laptop so much easier and a hell of a lot faster!
 
I've built my ISO and it's installing now...

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I'll post another pic when I find out how many updates it still needs. :p

edit: It hangs checking windows update and it's running IE8 so I've binned it. I'll try another build with more .msu files applied tomorrow.
 
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Yeah Windows Update on a fresh Windows 7 SP1 is a bit of a mess.

I found that you need to go onto the Microsoft website and physically download the update for Windows Update to get it to the latest Agent version.

Then you run the Windows Update checker tool from the website as well.

Even then it takes damn ages, I believe I had something like 220 updates even with the rollup from a while back applied.
 
I had no problems on a clean-ish SP1 install getting updates to show but since installing this "big" update on it, it just won't have it at all. And as I mentioned above, my integrated ISO was no good either.... or maybe I don't have the patience. :p

I'd recommend people test this on vmware or machines that don't matter first because I'm buggered if I can get any updates working at all now.

edit: Just uninstalled the "big" update from my first SP1 install and windows updates are showing up again fine.
 
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