Second time this month now I have found myself cursing out M$ and frustrated by the lack of provision for service packs any more for their products, first was a reimage of a machine where I work, Windows 7 64 bit image went out flying from the MDT server, got the base image on within 12 minutes on the 1gb network, what then tailed it was a nearly 4 hour cycle through 200+ of various security/windows updates from the WSUS server before the MDT process had completed allowing the machine to be logged onto and used.
Second machine was a virtual server today on our hyper-v platform, 2008 R2 – standard image with full installation and only the IIS role installed for its pending webdav setup, a meagre 160 updates took over 3 hours to complete to the point where I had to leave it in sheer frustration – box was not specced horribly, had a decent amount of CPU and RAM and the discs are all high end SAS drives for it, but the sheer amount was overwhelming and stopped play for the work I had planned for an entire afternoon.
I wish they would give some serious consideration to this and set a threshold, when it hits 150 updates and above, start planning for a service pack, as its costs in work time get.
