Testing instructions for Update Rollup Beta packages

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Dear Microsoft Windows Update Beta Tester:

Testing Instructions for Update Rollup Beta packages - KB826939

The Windows Update (WU) customer experience is very important to Microsoft. And we believe the input you give us from your beta testing will help us release an update package that represents the best of what Microsoft offers.

Background Information:
This update consists of 22 previously released critical and security updates for Windows XP rolled into one convenient package. Installing this item provides the same results as installing the individual updates.

There will be two versions of the Update Rollup: Full and Express install packages.

  • The Full Update Rollup package:
    • Will be offered via the WU Catalog site and SUS
    • Will only be offered to Windows XP RTM and Windows XP SP1 users
  • The Express Update Rollup package:
    • Will be offered to WU Consumer site
    • Will only be offered to Windows XP SP1 users.
    • Will only download and install any of the 22 items not previously been installed on your system. If one of the original 22 individual packages has already been installed on your system, the Express Update Rollup package will not download and install the same item again during the Update Rollup installation.
  • Neither Full or Express packages will be offered via Auto Update channel - their detection design ensure that once an update rollup package is installed, neither AU nor the WU Sites will offer individual packages to users.
  • The original 22 individual packages will continue to be offered through Auto Update, through SUS and through the WU Catalog.
    • The packages' detection design has been established to ensure once the Update Rollup package has been installed either through Consumer or through the WU Catalog or SUS that the original 22 individual packages will not be reoffered through WU Site, Auto Update, or through SUS.
  • The Update Rollup Express install package will only install the items which have not previously been installed on your system. If one of the original 22 individual packages has already been installed on your system, the Express Update Rollup package will not install this specific item again.
  • Catalog channel will be refreshed with the Update Rollup Full install package. The Full install version of Update Rollup package can be installed on either Windows XP RTM or Windows XP SP1. Update.exe will determine which binary set to install based on SP level.

(NOTE On the WU site, the Update Rollup packages will supersede all 22 contained packages. If WU finds an Update Rollup package is installed, WU will not reoffered contained security and critical updates. If any one of the contained security or critical updates is missing from the customer's computer and user visits WU site, it will offer this update rollup package. Update.exe will only download onlythe required updates.)

Testing Scenarios I:
For this first sample scenario, the user has 10 of the 22 individual update packages installed on their system.

  1. User only has 10 out of 22 update packages installed - can be verified via Control Panel under Add/Remove Programs NOTE This is not always the case. Certain Updates are un-installable and therefore not showed in Add/Remove programs. In this case, there are two of the 22 items will not show in the Add/Remove Program:
    • Q323255
    • 811630
  2. The Express install version of Update rollup package will still be offered in the Critical Update Category after the site scan.
  3. Once user has installed this Update rollup, a restart may be required.
  4. Verification after the install of the Update Rollup package:
    • Control Panel / Add/remove programs = All 10 of the items in the Control Panel will be removed and replaced with one item: the Update Rollup package - Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows XP (KB826939).
    • WU Site Scan result = none of the 22 individual nor the Update Rollup packages will be offered.
    • AU = none of the 22 individual packages will be offered via AU after the Update Rollup package is installed. How ever, for the current beta stage:
    • All 22 individual update packages will continue to be offered via AU and SUS - September 10 through September 24. So users will continue to have AU offering anyone or all of the 22 individual update packages. Please see the update list below for your reference.
    • Once this Update Rollup release to WU live, none of the 22 individual packages will be offered via AU or SUS.

Thank you!

Windows Update Beta Program