• Two odd Win10 cumulative updates, KB 4055254 and KB 9999786, appear to tackle the dot matrix printing problem

    Posted on November 23, 2017 at 08:47 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    On Tuesday, Microsoft released KB 4055038, a set of patches designed to fix the bug in this month’s Patch Tuesday security patches that took out Epson dot matrix printers.

    One big problem, as I mentioned on Wednesday: KB 4055038 only fixed the bug introduced in

    • Win 8.1 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048958
    • Win 8.1 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048961
    • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048957
    • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048960
    • Server 2012 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048959
    • Server 2012 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048962

    Which left unfixed the Epson dot matrix printer bugs in

    Now we’re seeing news on this forum, and elsewhere, that Microsoft has released at least two patches to fix Windows 10.

    Win10 1709 KB 9999786  appeared on the Windows Update servers and in the Catalog (thx, @PerthMike), but a moderator on the Windows Server Technet site says:

    KB9999786 was accidently published as a test package to WSUS/Catalog. This package has been removed from WSUS/Catalog. Customers who downloaded KB9999786 should delete/remove this package.

    Win10 1703 KB 4055254 brings 1703 up to Build 15063.729 (Thx, @abbodi86). That one has a proper KB entry (click on the link), but it hasn’t yet been integrated into the usual Windows Support list.

    I would guess that there are fixes floating around for 1607, 1511 Enterprise and 1507 LTSC, but given Microsoft’s propensity for releasing patches before documenting them, I wouldn’t install any of them.

    Whotta mess.

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