Originally Posted by Jiff Lemon Read the instructions - You have to select to download "DYNAMIC UPDATES" - what you're getting is the option to download individual hotfixes.
I wonder if we're looking at the wrong instructions then? The ones linked are for v3 of windows update. They don't match up with v4 very well (check boxes are different and obviously there's no mention of dynamic updates anywhere).
Agent - AFAIK the only way to install the hotfixes automatically is to construct a batch file and use command line options with each hotfix (basically you need to use either unattended or quiet mode and disable the reboot / restart after the patch installs). Unfortunately looking at some of the patches I've downloaded for Win2K the command line options aren't the same for every patch file so you'll have to check each one before you write the batch file... It will still take some time for each PC but you shouldn't have to keep clicking anything or restart for each fix which should help. You could even make the batch file auto run when you insert the CD for minimum effort. Not *all* of the fixes use the same parameters but most of them have either an unattended (-u, -m or -passive in some patches) or quiet (-q or -quiet) mode and a switch to tell them not to reboot (usually -z)...
Actually... Just reading your original post again - are you building new machines or just doing a fresh install? Becuase if they're using the same / very similar hardware you can just install and update one machine and use ghost (or similar) to copy the complete image onto the other hard drives. It can be done if they're using different hardware but you'll need to minimise any problems (i.e. use the microsoft software IDE driver and uninstall most of the devices from the computer (using device manager) before you take the image). And then you'll have to re-install all the drivers on each machine and you'll probably run into one or two problems (basically it's *much* easier if you have identical hardware)