• Welcome to Patch Thursday – KB 4052232 is supposed to fix the Jet database problem, but only for the old Fall Update, version 1511

    Posted on November 2, 2017 at 15:31 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Maybe Microsoft’s trying to minimize the screams. All I know for sure is that there’s a new patch for 1511 that just hit the Catalog.

    Yes, Microsoft declared that, as of Oct. 10, 1511 will no longer receive security updates. But, boy howdy!, here’s a fix for the “Unexpected error from external database driver” bug in all of the October Windows patches. Microsoft says this post-mortem 1511 fix:

    Addressed issue where applications based on the Microsoft JET Database Engine (Microsoft Access 2007 and older or non-Microsoft applications) fail when creating or opening Microsoft Excel .xls files. The error message is, “Unexpected error from external database driver (1). (Microsoft JET Database Engine)”.

    This particular patch, KB 4052232, is only available from the Catalog — you have to manually download and install it. It brings 1511 up to build 10586.1177.

    The big surprise: As best I can tell, there’s no analogous patch for any other version of Windows — not Win7, not 8.1, not Win10 1607, not 1703 — although they all show acknowledged reports of this same bug.

    UPDATE: Yep, it was fixed in 1607, KB 4052231 , but not in 1703. At least, not yet.

    Thanks to Yuhong Bao.

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