Vista SP1 available on WSUS

Hey all,

You may have noticed that yesterday we made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available on WSUS to help make it easy for you to deploy into your organization. There are a couple of different packages so I thought I’d jot down a note so you could understand which one will work for your purposes.

If you’re running English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish language system that has English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, or No MUIs, you should download and approve the package titled: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Standalone (KB936330) - English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish. Because of some applicability logic in the way the service packs are packaged, if you only download and approve the “all languages” version, SP1 will not be offered to machines running English, French, German, Spanish or Japanese that has an English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, or No MUIs installed. If you only have these five language systems and MUIs in your organization, we actually recommend you only download and approve the “Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Standalone (KB936330) - English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish” package since it’s much smaller than the “all languages” version.

If you are running an English, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish language system that has a MUI language pack installed you’ll need to download and approve the “all languages” version of the service pack.

Hope this is helpful