[THIN] Re: MS KB download tool
- From: Andreas Roth <art-freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:46:26 +0100 (CET)
Hi Adam,
Thanks for Feedback. As i didn't found any tool I started creating a
powershellscript for downloading.
It reads a txt file line by line for the KB Nr., do a google search - and visit
MS Homepage to get the download cookie/url.
Then it parses the page for the dynamic download link. I'm using the IE COM
automation object - so maybe not the smartest, but at least a working way. :)
Here is a small preview of the script
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2685981/download-hotfixes/download-hotfixes.ps1
Maybe I'll create a blogpost with some further information in the next days.
Cheers,
Andreas
----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Adam Thompson" <adwulf@xxxxxxxxx>
> An: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2013 18:37:09
> Betreff: [THIN] Re: MS KB download tool
>
> On 11 February 2013 16:56, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > once upon a time there was an email address you could use to automatically
> > get them. You put the number in the subject and it would send it back.
> > Should be easy enough to script if they still support that.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> I'm not sure that they do. According to:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mmcintyr/archive/2008/09/02/how-can-you-download-a-hotfix-without-contacting-microsoft.aspx
>
> There's now a CAPTCHA to be solved in order to get a hotfix download link
> emailled to you.
>
> And even then, if you were to have a script that could solve the CAPTCHA,
> you would need it to take the link from the email, download the file,
> provide the password to the file and extract the MSU.
>
> Where I am currently, whenever somebody downloads a hotfix, they are asked
> to copy it to a DFS share, along with a small .txt file saying the title of
> the KB article, which ticket number it was used in, and which symptoms it
> was supposed to fix. If the fix does not work, they are asked to add this
> to the .txt file.
>
> So, if somebody needs the LDR fix in future, they can get at it quickly,
> and they can see if it has been effective or not in the past.
>
> --
> AdamT
> Novus Ordo Mundi
>
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