Using WSUS to update customer workstations pre-delivery

Hi,
We intermittently, as a company, supply PCs to customers 5-20 at a time and windows update each one separately. Can WSUS be used to update these non domain joined workstations to save time and our broadband? If not, is there a method others use to update
a bunch of workstaions before delivering to their clients?
thanks in advance,
Dave

Makes sense, Dave.
One additional item I'll share. Since you're doing this to essentially do post-OS-deploy patch remediation, you may also find some value in using approval deadlines in conjunction with those new machines, along with a 2-hour detection frequency. This will
effectively allow you to patch those systems virtually hands-free and probably in less than a workday.
Store a REG file on a thumb drive. Import the REG file and restart the WUA service (or reboot the client). The WUA will run a scan automatically on service restart, and every 95-120 minutes thereafter until all available updates have been installed.
The actual number of cycles needed will depend on whether there are any exclusive updates in the patch collection (e.g. .NET Service Packs most notably) which will trigger their own installation/reboot cycle, but my expectation would be that almost any machine
can be completed in three cycles ... which would be about four hours from the time you point the client to the WSUS server and reboot.
Resist the temptation to use the 1-hour detection frequency, unless you also configure the WUA to use client-side targeting (which is really dependent upon how you currently manage your WSUS environment). If you're using client-side targeting and a 1-hour
detection, the update cycles could complete in as little as 2 hours.
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