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A.k.a "WSUS via Sneakernet?"

(Similar question asked in 2013 here, but some key differences and no strong answers to that one.)

Most of my environment consists of AD-joined Windows 7 workstations; I'm managing updates through WSUS and EPO, and that's got enough automation and reporting to satisfy.

I have, however, a select population of machines that are not network connected and never will be. At the expense of a little manual prep work, I can use USBs or CDs and WSUSOffline to deploy the windows updates, and just copy the AV updates -- but that gives me no real closing of the loop in reporting terms.

I can track and report based on completely manual log examination by eyeball and recording on paper, but that seems very Victorian. (Edwardian, even.) Is there any way that I can still use WSUS and EPO (or perhaps SCCM?) or some related process to unify the tracking and reporting?

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  • I don't see how you can accomplish unified/centralized tracking and reporting if these machines aren't connected to a network. Can you connect them to an isolated switch/VLAN?
    – joeqwerty
    Feb 23, 2016 at 21:01
  • Not able to connect them even to an isolated network; if nothing else, the epoxy in the network jack would be challenging. I suppose I was hoping there was a sneakernet way of moving the results back to the management server.
    – lairdb
    Feb 24, 2016 at 1:06

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