So if your goal is to find a simple, painless way to get WHS11 installed and updated from bare metal, your reading the right thread.įor the uninitiated, WHS11 is a somewhat stripped down version of s2k8r2圆4, built with a clean overlay that makes it super friendly for us home users. It morphed into months of many, many clean installs & update runs, researching superseded updates, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of third party OS update tools. This all actually started as a paragraph rant about the joys (and lack thereof) of updating WHS11 (code named VAIL). The second post outlines the Telemetry and GWX issues that come up when you use WU, and the third outlines the various options to WU for installing updates, including the off-line updater linked above that is specifically tailored to update WHS11 with minimal hair pulling. If you want the details, this thread is broken into a couple of posts, first how a bare metal install of WHS11 can be successfully updated using Windows Update (WU). So here the link to the most recent version release along with a. I realize not everyone has the patience to read thru all this info to try finding the link to the VAIL update tool.