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Asked: 2011-02-02 08:07:45 +0800 CST

Export hotfixes to new computer?

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Does anyone know how to export the hotfixes from one Windows Server 2008 R2 computer to another?

I'm building a copy of a windows machine and it would be helpful to me if there was a folder where they were all stored.

I found a question about how to list which ones were installed, but I couldn't find how to easily access the patches themselves.

windows windows-server-2008 windows-server-2008-r2

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  1. Best Answer

    The "official" solution is to set up a WSUS server. Or, if that won't work for you, poke about in %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\. The complication is that windows update service seems to cache the raw .CAB files, and doesn't keep the .MSI or .MSP packages handy.

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