Yes, for now it is a proof of concept only and Windows Update is not functional. We must wait for the developers to improve the bypass so that Windows Update will detect new updates with the bypass installed and that it won't use 100% CPU in the background.
Ok. I was hoping to put a final solution in place this weekend for an out of state relative but I guess we will all have to wait until the January 14th Patch Tuesday. In the meantime, I have set up 0Patch (it will eventually run alongside the ESU hack). Hoping the WU hack will also allow these updates to automatically be installed without user intervention.
Hello, I am one of the very few people running Server 2008 R2 as my main OS and needless to say, I don't want to switch and just use it as it works perfectly for everything I do as a slimmed-down Windows 7. It is a real purchased copy so there are no hacks or anything else to worry about breaking. Since 7 and 2008 R2 are essentially the same thing at their core, I am hoping dearly that there will be a specific release of these ESU-enablers and a process that is similar or identical to Windows 7. I am very wary of trying out anything designed for Windows 7 as this is a heavily-modified 2008 R2 install with support for an NVME boot drive which I do not want to mess up. (Obviously I should just clone it before anything ...) Thank you very very much, I hope it is not too much extra work ...
Another question from me. I am not that tech savvy so please bear with me and thank you for your help in advance! Now that I have installed BypassESU, after 14/1/20, will I be able to check for updates and install them from under Windows Update in the Control Panel or will I need to go to the Microsoft website directly, look for applicable updates and download them from there?
I would want to know what appropriate keywords to use to bring them up before I do it myself (I imagine "extended security update", but still and all). (but I will only be downloading and installing them once there's the improved bypass, for my own convenience)
New user here. Win 7 Pro, older low-powered Dell laptop, Bypass v3 For what it is worth: Today after a few heres and theres, the procedure went fine, and the test ESU installed just fine. Left the Bypass installed, and did a WU update to see what lag I could expect - it did the update check in just 3 minutes. If it matters, I did not reboot after the ESU test, and I had checked for updates just before installing Bypass. Only 1 update found.
What if you manually import the ESU updates into WSUS? Could Win7 clients find & download the ESUs from WSUS?
Not without modifications or an extended bypass (or a real ESU license, of course), no. The same local applicability checks apply to WSUS as well as to WU.
If I'm reading this right, I get them from that page, yes? Also, Is this the new "improved" bypass that was discussed earlier? Please let it be so.
It was yesterday, early afternoon, us eastern standard time, using the gitlab link in the first post. Zip file said v3. Running a compartmentalized linux at the moment, so can't be more specific as I can't get to the readme for details. But that thought had crossed my mind, which is why I made sure to let you good folks know.
@abbodi1406 Hmmm, was thinking about the approach used on this tool. What about doing something similar to allow installation of Server 2012-locked updates on the original release of Windows 8? IE11, for instance?