Microsoft patch list

[Hiro]

Does anyone know where I can get a documented list of patches that Microsoft has released for Windows 2000 and XP?

If at all possible, Office 2000 and 2003 also.

Thanks in advance, I am hoping to save a lot of time with this.

[mechmike0034]

Better yet, get the patches themselves (not for Office)

http://www.autopatcher.com/

[Hiro]

What I am using this for is to build a comprehensive list of patches that will be mandatory for our nodes to pull from the Patchlink server.

The reason I need the list (and Patchlink makes it difficult) is because Patchlink has a list of EVERY SINGLE patch to choose from but does not provide any information on that patch and what it replaces.

For example, a Cumulative Security Update released on 1/1/06 would replace a Cumulative Update released on 5/1/05. I wouldn't want to make both Cumulative updates part of the mandatory patch list.

This link looks promising though, thank you very much mechmike0034.

[mechmike0034]

There should be a list of the patches somewhere in the Autopatcher forums.