I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server which receives it's Windows Updates from an internal WSUS. The Security Only Cumulative Updates are approved for it to install.
This server had not installed updates for some time so had 6 of these cumulative updates waiting to install, and so I configured it to automatically install overnight.
It installed the very latest 18-03 Cumulative update successfully, it tried to install the older Cumulative updates and these failed. It then rebooted as usual and re-scanned to determine what it needs. So at the moment it still wants to install the older Cumulative updates, despite having the latest install.
Are Cumulative updates actually cumulative? Does it actually need to install the 5 earlier updates despite it having the latest one successfully installed, or is there some way of resetting it's Windows Update to make it properly re-scan for what it needs (ie. does it only want to install these updates still because it already had them downloaded).
Obviously I could just let it install them and reboot again, but I need to wait for another maintenance window to do that and I'd like to avoid it if they aren't actually necessary.
Thanks
Andrew