Flash patches for Internet Explorer and Edge due today

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I’m sitting here wondering how this is going to work. IT Forum reports that the company will use Tuesday, February 21, 2017 to at least release an upd
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Only the IT Forum is reporting this. I checked a whole pile of Enterprise support sites and found nothing on this. An email notification only!!!

W10, IE and Edge – not so many Enterprise customers out there.
For the Enterprise, the majority are on W7, IE.
so…
MS to release a standalone IE patch for W7 Enterprise (paying customers only)?

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Windows 7 doesn’t need a Flash update from Microsoft; only Windows 10/8.1.

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Yup. The new Flash Player security updates for Win7 & earlier are already provided by Adobe on Feb. 14, including the ActiveX ones for IE.

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anonymous wrote:

Only the IT Forum is reporting this. I checked a whole pile of Enterprise support sites and found nothing on this. An email notification only!!!

Good point. I have no idea why it’s going out with so much hush-hush.

b wrote:

Windows 7 doesn’t need a Flash update from Microsoft; only Windows 10/8.1.

You’re right! IE 11 on Win7 plays by different rules. Thank you.

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Nothing in the Microsoft Update Catalog as of morning in USA.

-- rc primak

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MS usually releases patches around 10am PST. Check back then

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Yep, I’ll start looking for them at noon my time, Central.

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Better to check back either 11AM PST or 12PM PST. Central or CST time will be about 1PM or 2PM.
Feels like the new Adobe Flash security updates for Win8.1 & Win10 are the “out-of-band” or out-of-cycle ones…and that’s a GOOD thing.

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Nothing yet
update usually appear on 18:00 UTC

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Tinfoil hat time. What if the lack of updates these past two Patch Tuesdays is a sign that Microsoft is slowly ending support for 7 and 8.1? Either that or they want to make sure to release working updates.

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8.1 is still within mainstream support.

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Think we have to wait. My sources told me, that MS is planning to ship a Flash update before March 14, 2017 – but no shipping date confirmed yet.

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KB4010250 is available now.

It looks like we have a new numbering scheme, as some updates using the KB40***** have been previously released in the Catalog.

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Installed from Windows Update in 3 minutes + restart:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4010250/ms17-005-security-update-for-adobe-flash-player-february-21-2017

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If it’s just a Flash Player update, no restart is needed.

-- rc primak

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The update tells me it does.

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Well, that is new. I’ll see if my update does the same thing.

-- rc primak

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For just the Flash Player update, my Windows 10 Pro did not need a restart. The browser would have needed to close and restart, but not the system.

-- rc primak

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@ b

Restart the browser or restart the computer.?

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My device has been scheduled to restart. (I’ve never known any Microsoft update to restart a browser.)

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