How to extract Cumulative Updates and Service Packs

At the moment I’m preparing for a new initial installation and I know it’s smart to slipstream the service packs, cumulative updates and language packs. So below you find the switches on how to extract the files.

Steps

1. Extract the downloaded service pack or cumulative update to an easy folder in the root. Like, C:\abc
2. make a folder in abc like unpacked (C:\abc\Unpacked).
3. Open a command prompt, go to the easy folder (source) and type

   PackageName-KB12345-x64.exe /x:C:\abc\Unpacked

4. or if it doesn’t work (it depents on the CU or SP)try this.

   PackageName-kb12345-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\abc\Unpacked

5. A small window will popup show the package is extracting.
6. Now you can copy the *.msi’s to the update folder inside the setup binary files or run it by hand.