I have to run out and build servers as part of my jobs, and supporting workstations as well. Some of these locations are in fairly rural areas and, increasingly, on ships with teeny little satellite connections. So, you could imagine I don't have days to sit around and wait for Windows Updates to download and install, much less download them in batches myself.
For awhile I have been using the fine tool from the gang at AutoPatcher, which rolls out updates easily. It has different flavors for various Windows OSs and has never failed me. However, all good things come to an end and there is no difference with this. Microsoft sent a cease-and-desist to folks just trying to provide a useful tool to us hardworking IT stiffs and the AutoPatcher guys broke the bad news just the other day.
That said, if you are in need of such a tool, I found one decent mirror to get the final Core kits and updates. I've grabbed everything I needed and hope you can make use of the final releases yourself if you find the need to grab them.
