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7/5/2025, 4:48:24 PM
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8.1 Embedded Industry - choose the Enterprise variant. Massgrave should provide the latest official ISO with Update 3 (Nov 2014 - 9600.17415).
There are update packs available at MDL so that you would be fully updated in a pre-ESU state.
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1875373/
>last updates from the pack seem to be in Security-Only format tho, instead of Monthly Rollups - probably the author wished to avoid the backported W10 telemetry components
>not that they can be neutralized after installing monthly rollups anyways
>not to mention you'd still have to install the rest of the updates for 8.1 Embedded Industry yourself, so that you could be fully updated to July 2023
Or you can just download WHDownloader and slipstream the updates by yourself with abbodi's WHD-W81UI.
Sure, there are stuff like WSUSOffline, but it has been years since there was a release, and I dunno whether it still effectively fetches the latest updates.
If you feel adventurous, you can run Windows Update yourself on a fresh install, and wait hours and hours for the scan to finish, unless you install the prerequisite updates that will kickstart it a little. You'll be in for a wild ride.
https://wu.krelay.de/en/
>what about muh ESUs like in W7?
8.1 doesn't officially support ESU (even though TSForge can add ESU license data into the system's trusted store - which will at most replace the validation check suppressor function of BypassESU Blue), but you can piggyback on Server 2012 R2 updates up to Oct 2023 with non-ESU updates, and up to at least Oct 2026 with ESU updates (and then see how's things with Premium Assurance - an odd number of people still using Vista with Server 2008 updates don't seem to complain.)
You'll still require BypassESU Blue, especially when it comes to fooling Windows Update into offering Server 2012 R2 updates so that you won't have to check manually in the Update Catalog or the Knowledge Base articles.
8.1 Embedded Industry - choose the Enterprise variant. Massgrave should provide the latest official ISO with Update 3 (Nov 2014 - 9600.17415).
There are update packs available at MDL so that you would be fully updated in a pre-ESU state.
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1875373/
>last updates from the pack seem to be in Security-Only format tho, instead of Monthly Rollups - probably the author wished to avoid the backported W10 telemetry components
>not that they can be neutralized after installing monthly rollups anyways
>not to mention you'd still have to install the rest of the updates for 8.1 Embedded Industry yourself, so that you could be fully updated to July 2023
Or you can just download WHDownloader and slipstream the updates by yourself with abbodi's WHD-W81UI.
Sure, there are stuff like WSUSOffline, but it has been years since there was a release, and I dunno whether it still effectively fetches the latest updates.
If you feel adventurous, you can run Windows Update yourself on a fresh install, and wait hours and hours for the scan to finish, unless you install the prerequisite updates that will kickstart it a little. You'll be in for a wild ride.
https://wu.krelay.de/en/
>what about muh ESUs like in W7?
8.1 doesn't officially support ESU (even though TSForge can add ESU license data into the system's trusted store - which will at most replace the validation check suppressor function of BypassESU Blue), but you can piggyback on Server 2012 R2 updates up to Oct 2023 with non-ESU updates, and up to at least Oct 2026 with ESU updates (and then see how's things with Premium Assurance - an odd number of people still using Vista with Server 2008 updates don't seem to complain.)
You'll still require BypassESU Blue, especially when it comes to fooling Windows Update into offering Server 2012 R2 updates so that you won't have to check manually in the Update Catalog or the Knowledge Base articles.
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