Automatically install Windows Updates / Hotfixes when installing Vista

If, like us, you run a BDD or MDT setup in order to install your Operating Systems, this might be useful 🙂

If you’d like to pre-install Vista updates and hotfixes while Vista is installing:

1. Go to your Distribution Share (C:\Distribution)
2. Go into Operating Systems, then find your Vista OS (C:\Distribution\Operating Systems\Windows Vista Business SP1 – 32bit)
3. Create a new folder in this directory called “update”
4. Copy all of your Vista Update files (.msu) into this directory
5. That’s it 🙂 The next time you run a Vista deployment, the updates will be pre-installed!

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