Here is what I do, and in the long run it saves more time. Create a VM deploy Windows 7×64 to that VM. In the deployment have it run windows updates before and after app install. This will run WU twice. You could of course copy and paste the Update Task and have it run as many times as you want, because some updates only show up after some others are installed. Then I have MDT capture that image. I now use that image as my base image, and I update it every month or two. From now on every computer you image will already be fully updated, it is quicker than updating the images as you push them out. You will also no longer need to add updates to MDT every month.

If you still want to include the updates in MDT, then I suggest that you use the tools I listed above to download the updates because you can limit which updates are downloading.

http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/ http://download.wsusoffline.net/