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How to make an offline Windows Update server?
I am looking to do mobile computer repairs on a street market, I have electricity but my internet connection would be very limited using a 3G modem so bandwidth would be too costly do download updates for each customers machine that way.
What I am hoping to achieve, would be an offline 'mirror' of the official Windows Update website, so that as would normally be the case, on XP, you could click Tools>Windows Update within IE but instead of it going outbound to the official site, it would look at my local mirror server instead. And when you check for updates on Vista it would also do the same. Somehow I doubt it would be possible to do but I thought I would ask anyway. It would only need to store updates for XP/Vista/7 as I doubt any customers would be using anyting older than that. The other obstacle is that most machines would be running Home versions of Windows.
My main reason for this would be so that I didn't need to change any registry and/or group policy settings on the computer to point it to a normal WSUS server. Another option would be to use some 3rd party software, if it exists, where I could just browse to the URL of my server and it would detect which updates are required and push them out, but I don't know how that would work with Vista/7's built in update client.
Does anyone have any ideas on my options here?
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