8.1.2 Packaging updates
By using the Windows Update Management dialog box, you can package the acquired updates. To package updates, you have to first set the information that will be set during packaging.
This subsection describes how to set up packaging and how to package updates.
- Organization of this subsection
(1) Setting up packaging
You have to set package information that will be set during the packaging of updates.
When you package updates from the Windows Update Management dialog box, one package is created for each patch.
When you package updates, the name and ID of each package are automatically set.
- For security updates:
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- Package name
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If the security update is for except Windows 10 or earlier than Windows 10 1511, DPT-file-name-except-extension is set as the package name.
If the security update is for Windows 10 1511 or later, DPT-file-name-except-extension-version is set as the package name.
When the file name not including the extension exceeds 47 characters, the file name is truncated at 47 characters.
Periods (.) in the file name, if any, will be converted to underscores (_).
- Package ID
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The package name converted to uppercase is specified as the package ID. If, however, the package name exceeds 45 characters, it is truncated at 45 characters.
- For a feature update to Windows 10:
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- Package name
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DPT-Windows10-FU-version-CPU-architecture-language_sequential-number is set as the package name.
- Package ID
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The package name converted to uppercase is specified as the package ID. If, however, the package name exceeds 45 characters, it is truncated at 45 characters.
You can set package information by using the Packaging Settings panel that can be displayed from the Windows Update Management dialog box. You can display the Packaging Settings panel as follows:
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Click the Setup button.
The Setup dialog box appears.
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Select the Packaging Settings tab.
The Packaging Settings panel appears.
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You can specify the following settings by using the Packaging Settings panel.
(a) Cabinet name
Select the method used to set the name of the cabinet in which to store the package.
- Set automatically from the release date of the windows update
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The year and month in which the update was provided by Microsoft Corporation is set as the cabinet name. For example, if the update was provided in September 2019, 201909 is set as the cabinet name. This radio button is selected by default.
- Specify a value
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Select this radio button when you want to set a cabinet name of your choice.
You can set a 1 to 16 characters long cabinet name. The following symbols and spaces, however, cannot be specified:
Backslash (\), slash (/), asterisk (*), double quotation mark ("), colon (:), and semicolon (;)
(b) Cabinet ID
Select how to set an ID of the cabinet to which to store the package.
- Set automatically from the release date of the windows update
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Select this radio button when you want a cabinet ID to be automatically set.
The set cabinet ID consists of the last digit of the year in which the update was provided by Microsoft Corporation and an uppercase alphabet in the range from A to L denoting the month of the year. For example, if the update was provided in September 2019, 9I is set as the cabinet ID. This radio button is selected by default.
- Specify a value
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Select this radio button when you want to set a cabinet ID of your choice.
Use 2 characters alphanumeric characters to specify a cabinet ID.
If there is an existing cabinet having the same ID that you have just set, the generated package is stored in the existing cabinet. In that case, the cabinet name that you have set on the Packaging Settings panel is displayed in the Windows Update Management window as the cabinet to which the package is stored.
(c) Package version/revision
Specify a version and revision of the package.
- Version/revision
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You can use 1 to 6 characters alphanumeric characters and a slash (/) to specify a version and revision. By default, 0000 is set.
(d) Package generation
Specify a package generation number.
- Generation
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Specify 1 to 4 characters alphanumeric characters as the package generation number. By default, 0000 is set.
(e) Installation target directory
Specify the directory in which to install the package.
- Directory
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Specify the directory in which to install the package, which must not exceed 32 characters. By default, C:\ITDMWK_DPT is set.
(2) Packaging updates or a feature update
(a) Packaging updates
To package acquired updates, select the check box beside the update you want to package in List of windows updates, and then click the Package button. You can also select and package multiple updates.
The status icons shown in the following table tell you whether the displayed updates have been packaged before.
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Status icon |
Has the update been packaged before? |
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1 |
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No |
2 |
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Yes |
If you select an update that has not been acquired yet and then click the Package button, the selected update is first acquired and then packaged.
When you want to package an update first after installing the Remote Install Manager, you have to first start the Packager and log in to it. Once you are logged in, you can finish the Packager.
When the packaging of updates begins, a dialog box showing the progress of packaging appears. As the updates are packaged one after the other, a package is created for each packaged update according to the settings specified in the Packaging Settings panel. To cancel packaging, click the Cancel button during the packaging process. As soon as the packaging that was being executed when the Cancel button was clicked ends, the packaging process ends without packaging the rest of the updates. When the cabinet has a package with a name that is identical to the one that is about to be created, the creation of that package is skipped, and the packaging process continues.
When the packaging process is completed, a dialog box showing the packaging result appears.
- Note
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The acquired updates are deleted after they are packaged.
(b) Packaging a feature update to Windows 10
To package a feature update to Windows 10, you have to first download the ISO file with the feature update from Microsoft's website. After downloading the ISO file, select the check box beside the update you want to package in List of windows updates, and then click the Package button. The Feature Update Package dialog box appears.
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You can select only one feature update to Windows 10.
Figure 8‒4: The Feature Update Package dialog box
You can specify the following settings in the Feature Update Package dialog box:
- ISO files for feature updates
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Specify the ISO file with a feature update that you have downloaded.
Specify the ISO file corresponding to the update which you have selected the checkbox including the language and the CPU architecture in List of windows updates.
- Cabinet name
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Specify a cabinet name, which must be 1 to 16 characters long. You cannot specify the following symbols or a space in a cabinet name:
Backslash (\), slash (/), asterisk (*), double quotation mark ("), colon (:), or semicolon (;)
- Cabinet ID
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Specify a cabinet ID by using 2 characters alphanumeric characters.
If you click the OK button in the Feature Update Package dialog box, the packaging of the feature update is executed.
When the packaging process is completed, a dialog box showing the packaging result appears.
(3) Distributing packaged updates
After the updates are packaged, the packages are stored in the specified cabinet. A script file for installing the update is automatically set for each package. The script file contains the following settings. Edit these settings if necessary.
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Silent installation
The installer's dialog box is not displayed during the installation of an update. A dialog box indicating that a remote installation is currently in progress is not displayed either.
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Suppression of client restart
Packages are designed to suppress the restart of clients upon the successful distribution of the packages. If you want to enable client restart following the installation of updates, select the Restart computer after installation check box in the package settings before distributing the packages.
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Deleting the executive file of the installed update
After the update is successfully installed on the clients, the executable file of that update is deleted.
Furthermore, the directory to which to install the package, which you have set in the Packaging Settings panel, is specified in the package, and a script file is specified in the external program to be started after installation. In this way, you can apply patches to clients by simply distributing packages, without the need to specify any special settings.
When you want to distribute a specific update, we recommend that you create a destination group consisting of the clients to which the update has not been applied yet so that you can distribute the update to them without executing unnecessary jobs. You can group together the clients to which the update you want to distribute has not been applied yet, and distribute the update to them as follows:
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Find the computers to which the update of interest has not been applied yet.
On the Not Applied Computers tab of the Update List view of the Security module, you can find the computers to which each update has not been applied. For details, see the JP1/IT Desktop Management 2 Overview and System Design Guide for information on how to find out if updates have been applied to computers.
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Create a destination group consisting of the computers to which the update of interest has not been applied yet.
For details about how to create a destination group, see 5.2 Creating host groups.
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Distribute the update to the created destination group.
After packaging or distributing updates to clients, we recommend that you delete those updates for which data is no longer necessary so as to save database space.
- Important
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A feature update to Windows 10 is very large, and distributing it during business hours can place a heavy load on the network. We therefore recommend that you start the computers during nighttime to distribute the update to them. Furthermore, split the destinations into groups of appropriate sizes so that the update can be distributed to all destinations overnight.