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List:       patchmanagement
Subject:    RE: Vista msu patches
From:       John Gray <johngray () winse ! microsoft ! com>
Date:       2008-09-17 16:55:34
Message-ID: D92F7E6A79E88B4684BFC067AE15477D5B93DC2DE2 () NA-EXMSG-S702 ! segroup ! winse ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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Hi Mayra:

With Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the binaries (exe, dll, etc.) are \
language neutral - that means they do not have any resources (such as strings) that \
require translation/localization to specific languages.  All of the resources \
(including English) are stored in separate files that rarely require updates.  For \
most Vista updates (MSUs), only the core binaries that don't have any language \
dependency need to be updated.  This means the same language neutral package can be \
installed on any language version of Vista.  So the file itself is Language Neutral. \
The XML files specify the applicability for the update, meaning that such a package \
"applies to" all languages.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721887.aspx \
for more info.

If we do need to update the resources, then it requires a package with all or some \
subset of languages.

Vista SP1 is an example where we definitely had to update resources as well as code.  \
We released two versions: a "5 language" covering \
English/Japanese/German/Spanish/French and a "36 language" version covering all the \
primary localized languages for Vista.  For SP1, there are sub-packages inside the \
MSU that have the localized resources.  Therefore, the 36 language version also \
applies to "all" language editions, but carries the appropriate resources for \
whatever language it covers.  There were two reasons we also released the 5 language \
version: (1) the localization and testing for these languages was completed about a \
month earlier than the last of the 36 languages so we could release it sooner, and \
(2) the package size without all the other 31 languages was smaller which is \
important for some corporate deployment customer scenarios.

Hope this helps make sense.

jg




-----Original Message-----
From: Mayra Delgado [mailto:m.delgado@science-computing.de]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:56 AM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Subject: Vista msu patches

Hello everyone,

I was curious about the msu files for vista patches. Does anybody know
what language code they use for it in the internal xml files or metadata
files? I only found language="neutral" in xml files and language="ALL"
in the metadata files.
Is there an API to get this information for a single msu file? I
searched the web and the groups, but I haven't found anything interesting.


Best regards,
Mayra Delgado

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