OSMAN: It's already up to date until January 2020 with the KB4534303 security monthly quality rollup. I tried manually installing the October 2021 KB5006736 security monthly quality rollup to bring it up to date, but it failed with a "This update does not apply to your system" message. The KB4575904 ESU Licensing Preparation Package no longer can be used because it breaks Windows Update and generates an error code.
Awesome Note that this procedure is needed only for x64 versions. On x86 installs just by double clicking the update... go figure.. The "M" on microsoft probably stands for mess... For the next cumulative update you just need to edit the .bat file and put the correct kb and package file names. I will make sure to post the updated script though.
In my tests I was able to install KB4575904 after I had installed everything else and it didn't break the WU (as far as I know at least). No error messages.. nothing, just "Your system is up to date" message. Still it didn't detect the monthly roll up. I could install the monthly manually but the weird thing is that when I tried to install previous monthlies after I had installed the October one they could install as well. They shouldn't apply since the latest was already installed. So my understanding is that it doesn't install properly under the hook. I will repeat the process at some point and check the cbs log.
I was already thinking ahead and was going to ask you that. After reading OSMAN's reply, I decided to try to manually install the KB4537810 February 2020 SMQR update to see if it installs, and it did. I'm going to attempt the same with the SMQR updates from March 2020 until October 2021 to try to bring Vista up to date. My birthday party plans for today got cancelled, so I've got plenty of free time on my hands to do it.
Happy birthday man!! You could install the security only updates between 2020-01 and today with the last one being quality rollup. Although honestly it shouldn't make so much of a difference.
The KB4575904 ESU LLP installed fine for me, but after I did a restart and then did a "checking for updates" with Windows Update, the red banner and the 8000266 failure code appeared. After I uninstalled it and did a restart, Windows Update worked fine again. Frustrating!
xrononautis: I've already downloaded and copied all of the SMQR updates from February 2020 to October 2021 into the Vista laptop. I'm in the process of installing them now, in-between what I'm doing at home, so it's going to take awhile. After I'm done, I'm going to re-install KB4575904 ESU LLP and then see what happens when I do a "checking for updates". I'm not going to bet yet on the 8000266 failure code not appearing.
I'm so used to installing the SMQR in Windows 7 every month, so I naturely am doing the same with Windows Vista/Server 2008. I've already gone through the trouble of obtaining all the SMQR updates, so I'll finish up with them. When I submit my new Windows Vista/Server 2008 install and update guide, I'll make sure the last steps are for the SOQU's and not for the SMQR's. Update: All of the SMQR's for February 2020 through September 2021 are installed. I kept getting a "This update does not apply to your system" message when trying to install the October 2021 SMQR update. I decided to try the October 2021 SOQU update, and it installed fine. After I was all done, I decided to install KB4575904 ESU LLP again to see if it still generates an error code in Windows Update. Sure enough, it did. After I uninstalled it, Windows Update worked fine. If all goes well, I plan to post an edited install and update guide for Vista/Server 2008 tomorrow.
After 2 test clean installs and several problems that had to be dealt with over a 3-day period, a new Windows Vista SP2 64-bit install and update guide has been submitted in the original post (#1). For those of you who want to keep Internet Explorer 9 up to date (even though few websites now support it), read posts #33 and #37 and give all the thanks to xrononautis.
These are the Windows Update Agent and Root Certificate files being used after doing a clean install of Windows Vista SP2 64-bit. Does a more current version exist for either file?
The Windows Update Agent 7.6 is not needed at all. By deploying Sha_WUC tool you are installing 7.7 anyway and it can be installed directly. About the root certificates I haven't come across an update and I never had any problems. There might exist updated ones but I am not aware of one. One thing though related to the root certificate is the update kb2763674 (SHA256 related app signing). Before installing this update I couldn't install for example the tigervnc application. So if you have any applications that refuse to install try installing this one and try again.
Oh, okay. Do you recommend KB2763674 (01/07/2013) be installed between steps #9 and #10 of the newly posted guide? Do you have any questions and comments about the newly-posted guide?
I had no idea what TigerVNC is until you mentioned it and I read about it. It's definitely something that I have no use for. The wife of my long-time friend of 36 years just called me to let me know he's been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He's 84 years old and will be in the hospital for at least the next 2 days. She's 79 years old and was diagnosed with it last year and went through several months of treatment before her heart function improved to 50%. Him and I were supposed to visit yesterday for my birthday, but he wasn't feeling good, so he cancelled the visit. That's how I wound up being free all day to deal with the new Vista guide. It's time to take a break from the computer and put some nourishment in my body and get caught up on the national news. Until later.