I can also confirm this is working in a clean install of Windows Vista Business SP2 64-bit. I selected option #3 in the tool: [3] Patch WUC as Server2008 + Vista receive Vista updates and Server 2008 updates (including ESU updates) After loading Windows Update and doing a "check for updates" scan, the list of updates appeared 17 minutes later. 327 important updates for Vista and Server 2008 have downloaded and are currently installing. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 was installed earlier, so several of the updates are for it.
Update on post #22: 195 of the 327 important updates installed before the install process froze and came to a halt. I waited about an hour for it to continue and install the remaining updates, but it didn't. I did a hard shutdown, waited a few minutes, then restarted. The "configuring updates" appeared and got part way into "step 1 of 3" before it failed. I'm going to do another clean install of Windows Vista Business SP2 64-bit and then include step #4 which I omitted the first time: Step 4 (optional): If you want to have Internet Explorer 9, you must first install two updates that are prerequisite: KB971512 and KB2117917. Then you install Internet Explorer 9 and then you install the update KB4018271. I'm also going to run options #1 of the tool so the Vista updates get installed first.
Update on post #23: By using the steps and options that I mentioned in the last part of post #23, I was more successful this time in getting 200+ Vista updates installed. I then switched to option #3 of the tool. I was also successful in getting 70+ Server 2008 updates installed.
I have one last thing to mention. After getting Windows Vista Business SP2 64-bit completely up to date with Vista and Server 2008 updates, I discovered the .NET Framework 4.6 updates would not install. After I deployed the dotNETFx4 ESU Bypass tool and restart the computer, Windows Update successfully installed those updates. abbodi1406, thanks for providing the necessary tools and instructions for me to come to a successful end to my quest.
Is there any way to run it in other language rather than these ones in the readme file? I use the greek language. Thank you a lot!
No, KB4474419 only support those langs for WUA (probably because those the same langs supported for Server 2008) if anyone know older update for WUA (after 7.6.7600.256) you can try PHP workaround (works for any lang) https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...dows-xp-server-2003.82538/page-4#post-1630258
You will need to discuss that with the person who created the Vista_SHA2_WUC.7z tool. Look at post #1.
The very first time I went through this process, I selected option #3 instead of option #1 in step #16. Because option #3 allows Vista SP2 to receive both Vista and Server 2008 updates, 320+ important updates were detected and displayed. Almost 200 important updates installed before the process froze and came to a halt. After waiting for more than an hour for the process to continue, I started again from the very beginning. When I got to step #16 again, I selected option #1 instead of option #3. 170+ Vista important updates were detected and displayed and installed fine. After confirming that no more Vista important updates were available, I switched to option #3. 50+ Server 2008 important updates were detected and displayed and installed fine. After confirming that no more Server 2008 important updates were available, I was done. A few more clean installs of Windows Vista SP2 64-bit has been done since then with the "option #1 first, option #3 second" procedure. There was an occasionally hiccup with Windows Update, but victory was eventually reached each time.
You should disable Windows Defender in the "Services" list because it's very outdated and useless. If you don't disable it, a definition update for it will appear in the Windows Update app, but it won't install.