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With so many Windows Updates happening in the background you never really know which webpage URL is a source of your PC’s last driver update. Knowing direct URL’s can be particularly useful if you want to have manual control on driver updates or after a reboot of your PC.

Identify direct URL for Windows Update driver

Here is a method through which you can identify direct URL for a Windows Update driver in Windows 10/8/7. This method involves following steps as follows:

  1. Stopping Windows update service
  2. Cleaning up the local Windows Update cache
  3. Removing driver for a particular device
  4. Restarting Windows update service
  5. Installing latest available driver
  6. Inspecting logs to identify direct URL

Step 1: Stopping Windows Update service

Using admin command prompt, execute the command “net stop wuauserv”. This will stop the Windows Update service.

Step 2: Cleaning up the local Windows Update cache

To clean up local Windows Update cache, use admin cmd, and execute the following commands, one after the other:

Step 3: Removing driver from a particular device

This step involves uninstalling a particular device driver. Follow these steps,

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  • Start – Device Manager
  • Open Display adapters
  • Right-click on the device
  • Click Uninstall.
  • At the prompt, ensure that “Delete the driver software for this device” is checked.
  • Click OK
  • Wait until the driver is uninstalled
  • On the Action menu click “scan for hardware changes.”
  • The device now comes up with a Yellow-mark over it indicating a driver could not be found. If an older driver was found and installed, you can uninstall that too and repeat until the only basic drive is left.

Step 4: Restarting Windows Update service

With the driver successfully uninstalled, now restart Windows update service using admin cmd-prompt. Execute “net start wuauserv”.

Step 5: Installing the latest available driver

Follow these steps to install latest available drivers for a device whose drivers which were uninstalled in Step 3.

  • Start – Device Manager
  • Right-click on the device and click “Update Driver software.”
  • Click “Search automatically for updated driver software.”
  • Wait for the driver update to complete

Step 6: Inspecting logs to identify direct URL

To identify direct URL for a Windows Update driver you have to browse through logs in Windows directory. Follow these steps:

  • Open Windows/ logs / WindowsUpdate
  • Open the .etl file in notepad (if there is more than one log, open the larger one)
  • Search for “. c a b” and find the last match in the file.
  • Remove spaces from the string to get the URL of the .cab file.
  • Remove the regional datacenter prefix “au.ds”: Yow will get for example the URL – http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2015/06/200005630_d9e19222b206b4dd6ed9813f790565c2638d0f75.cab.

This is the direct download to your device driver

Source:MSDN blogs.

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Particularly for servers in which IE Enhanced Security Configuration is enabled, you need to have all the Windows Update/Microsoft Update URLs in your 'Trusted Sites' list in order to use the site.

(Furthermore, for domain member servers where Group Policy enforces Internet Explorer's list of 'Trusted Sites', you don't have the option to edit the Trusted Sites yourself.. so all the necessary URLs should be listed in the GPO.)

So, what is the full list of URLs I'll need in IE's Trusted Sites? So far I have the following:

  • http(s)://*.update.microsoft.com

Microsoft Update Website Url

I seem to remember there being several more..

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I did a little more digging and found the following.

From KB836941 that @joequerty found:

  • http://*update.microsoft.com
  • https://*update.microsoft.com
  • http://download.windowsupdate.com

From an MS MVP's WSUS blog:

  • http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
  • http://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
  • https://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
  • http://download.windowsupdate.com
  • http://*.download.windowsupdate.com
  • http://*.windowsupdate.com
  • http://wustat.windows.com
  • http://ntservicepack.microsoft.com

Not required for Windows Update, but could also be useful:

  • http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate

Combined with the wildcard rules in KB184456, I get the following:

Microsoft Update Server Url

  • *://*update.microsoft.com
  • *://*.windowsupdate.com
  • http://wustat.windows.com
  • http://ntservicepack.microsoft.com
  • http://office.microsoft.com

Hope that helps someone out there!

ewallewall

Microsoft Update Site Url

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Make it easy:

http://*.microsoft.com
http://*.windowsupdate.com

Repeat above with https.

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