Software Updates support for Windows XP through SCCM

Question

Hi
As we all know Windows XP end of life support is approaching, I am hoping that someone may be able to help me understand what will happen once this has ended.
We have a customer who has purchased the extended support for 1yr, What I need to understand is, what will the process be to release Windows XP Patches to customers who have purchased the extended support.
We currently use SCCM SUP for the deployments, I am assuming that this will not be the process going forward so what is Microsoft's view on managing this for paid customers and how do we manage it?
Many Thanks
Ann

Answer 1

I beieve I heard awhile back that there's a tool sumilar to SCUP that will be available for those who have purchased an extended support contract.
This was what I had heard from other customers was done for Windows 2000 updates and XP SP2 updates after the expiration of SP2 support.
There's a
thread in the WSUS forum related to Windows 2000 that discusses this (once you get past all the confusion and convolution regarding the original issue), and that thread references
another thread in the CM2007 Software Updates forum related to post-SP2 updates for Windows XP.
From what I can get from these articles, it's a self-contained import tool that reads a Microsoft-supplied CAB that contains the contract updates.
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