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As far as I know, this is unprecedented. MSRC just posted a blog that says we won’t have Patch Tuesday today. This month, we discovered a last minute
[See the full post at: Microsoft calls off Patch Tuesday]

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Interesting, interesting…

I also notice that MSE had not had a definitions update in over 24 hours. That is the case with automatic, a manual search with the app, and also a manual download from the definitions download site. The last one was 1.235.2715.0 created on 2/13/2017 at 4:16AM.

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PhotM

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Interesting! I was knocked out of my login and the post above was as anonymous.

Also interesting is that MSE has not had an update to its definitions in over 24 hours. Neither the automatic ones, a manual update from within MSE or a manual download from the definitions website. The last one was 1.235.2715.0 at 12/13/2017 @ 4:16AM.

They usually update at least twice a day.

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I have just logged in to make the same point, Bill C., but you beat me to it. No MSE update my end since Feb 13, 2017 5:20 PM UTC. Could we infer from this that when MS suspend their updates, there is an automatic decrease in malware creation? That would be interesting.

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“Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems.” Has MS changed ownership or is this still the same Company we all know and love? I’m amazed, but glad to hear news like this. (:

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WOOOOOOOW!!!

Maybe somebody catch a Brain in the Executive Branch. Could it be they are suddenly worried about their BRAND? Reputation?

OR is as simple as WU is broken?

I agree with you, Woody, Better late than my anguish and frustration!!!

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MS may have a heart after all..it’s Valentines Day!
No grief for any windows users today

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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Microsoft is following MS-DEFCON, that’s all.

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Hee Hee whilst we are at MS-DEFCON 2, Microsoft are at MS-DEFCON 1
Stalemate!

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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D**n
the boredom continues …

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lizzytish

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Ahh its because they knew you were down Woody and given the normal…ahem…. “Prompt” M$ publishing of info on the details and the “nowhere links” pertaining to the updates etc. They obviously felt it would be unfair to loose them on an unprepared, unsuspecting world. (glad to see you back!! )

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“Adobe Releases Security Updates” – https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/02/14/Adobe-Releases-Security-Updates

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So, they actually DID keep one person employed in the QA department. Kudos. ;^)

Next question: Whose head is going to roll for Patch Tuesday being cancelled?

We are SysAdmins.
We walk in the wiring closets no others will enter.
We stand on the bridge, and no malware may pass.
We engage in support, we do not retreat.
We live for the LAN.
We die for the LAN.

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No, no, it’s not that.

Somebody hacked MS and they injected bad things everywhere. Now, they were lucky to pull the plug on auto-updates right before it gets sent to everyone.

Did you see that recent memory-only recent virus that targeted banks? Wow. Imagine how much damage it could do at Microsoft.

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Whatever issue they identified must be pretty bad if they’re postponing Patch Tuesday over it… kinda wonder what it is.

Also, I’ve noticed that there hasn’t been any new definition updates for over 24 hours now as others have mentioned. I normally see around 3 or 4 definition updates a day get released… wonder what’s going on there, too.

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PhotM

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DDOS?
Edit: no, WU is working fine.

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It must have been a pretty serious bug for them to do this.

But this is also an indication of reduced competency at MS.

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It’s great that Microsoft don’t release patch with known fault. What’s not so great, is that SMBv1 vulnerability which was disclosed couple weeks ago, is now still open. Also, since Adobe released today fixes for critical vulnerabilities in Flash, IE and Edge browsers with Flash enabled are left unpatched.

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Only one logical explanation … At 12:00:01 last night, the very first push of the Valentine’s Day Massacre Patch went to Satya’s home computer as he was, just by happenstance, burning the midnight oil finishing some very important project, when all of a sudden his computer rebooted, sending all of his hard work into the galactic bitbucket. Upon reboot, he also discovered his computer was hosed, bricked and broken. A quick phone call to MS by a very annoyed and upset Satya, and the Valentine’s Day Massacre Patch push was unplugged immediately, even before it could reach another computer. Heads will roll, I tell you, heads will roll!!!

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Just adds to the mess that Microsoft created. Talk about self inflicted on their part. Most everyone said this day would come when a update would either crash a whole bunch of systems or that they would have to delay them altogether because of a problem. Brings back that old adage Microsoft, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it. Hey Microsoft, let’s start work on Windows 7.5 and fix everything.

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Mary Jo Foley has published here http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delays-its-usual-patch-tuesday-updates/#ftag=YHFb1d24ec?yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp

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JDeC

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This may be of interest to you folks out there not really more than we already know http://www.computerworld.com/article/3169617/windows-pcs/microsoft-shelves-all-february-security-updates.html

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Classic Microsoft; If it ain’t broke, fix it ’til it is.

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Sometimes a LOL button would be good… definitely laughing (but better than crying at a bad update).

Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter

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Golly Y’all,

Has Anybody seen anything out of AU/WU/MU at all. My Defender ‘Definitions’ are still Timestamp LAST NIGHT.

I would be interested if anybody else has much difference….. :sherlock:

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The last one I got was 1.235.2715.0 dated 12/13/2017 @ 4:16AM. Nothing since. What ever it is it must be pretty major.

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PhotM

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Here is another interesting thing. When KB2953664 was re-re-re-released last week, I hid it (again). That resulted in my having 2 versions, one from fall 2016 and the one from last week in the hidden updates area.

I ran a check today to see if WU even worked (with the patch Tuesday cancellation), and I got the same Jan 2017 rollup as before, but in my hidden updates, both KB2952664 versions were gone. They did not install by themselves either.

I wonder why it disappeared. Maybe that was pulled as there is nothing in the Catalog under that KB either. Win7-64 Pro SP1 with WU set to never check.

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KB2953664 disappeared off my updates list. It was never installed, never hidden. Win 7 Home Group B set to never check (just had to look, though). It didn’t show up as a recommended or optional update, either, when I ran updates. The January Cumulative one, that I didn’t want, did show up, along with a few others… but no KB2953664 in any form.

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Yep! I just checked MS Catalog, sure enough, its not there any more. The general info page is still up.

What is funny is I did a Google search using the term “KB2952664”; the 1st entry in the list points to the MS page but the next 6 ones all point to either articles that Woody wrote or that Martin Brinkman wrote hehehe. Could it be that Microsoft really IS listening to the web conversations and the bad press is now causing them to think twice on their approaches to pushing their warez products?

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KB2952664

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Oops, that one- KB2952664!

Thank you.

Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter

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For a long time now, MS has been staging their upcoming patches through the Optional pipeline. Lets use KB2952664, in its 20-sometningth version, as an example. Here’s the way it works.

In Oct 2016, the (then) latest version of KB2952664 was released as a CHECKED RECOMMENDED update listed under the “important” updates. It was the latest version so it took precedence over (superseded) any earlier version. It got installed as CHECKED RECOMMENDED. And any of the earlier versions did not appear.

In Feb 2017, MS released a later version of KB2952664 as an UNCHECKED OPTIONAL update under the “optional” list. UNCHECKED OPTIONAL updates in the optional list do not get installed automatically. They are put there early for IT people and testers to test their compatibility. They are not meant to be installed at that point by the general public. But as long as one version is OPTIONAL and the other is RECOMMENDED, they are different and both can appear.

Once the UNCHECKED OPTIONAL update is deemed ready, it disappears from the optional list and is released as a CHECKED RECOMMENDED update, usually on Patch Tues, under the important list. At this point it will usually take precedence over (supersede) the older patch and the older one will no longer be available and will disappear. The later one is ready for installation.

But we didn’t have Patch Tues today, so the later version has not been released YET.

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The recommended one was actually expired last week, so we have only the Optional version 21 available now. I suppose it will be made Recommended when the current batch of patches will be eventually released.

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@PKCano: I understand the process and timing you lay out. What surprised me was it was no longer in my hidden list. I still have a very small number of items hidden, but never had them disappear like the 2 versions of KB2952664 (got it correct that time) except for the Intel driver one a few weeks ago. KB2952664 has been in my very small hidden list for months and months. Probably the result of the improved supercedence lists.

Sorry for the typo with the errant 3 in the first paragraph of my post above.

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@Bill C. See my older tens of posts about why hiding patches is not the best practice to understand why you noticed patches disappearing from your hidden list. It is nothing unusual. Just reset your SoftwareDistribution folder and stop hiding any patches for the best experience with Windows Update.

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@ch100 Is this one of the posts you refer to?
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/confusion-in-the-group-a-ranks/#post-18670

I saw another great one recently, courtesy of Crysta, but it seems to have been a casualty of the outage/backup.

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Just checked again, still at 2715 as of 3:56PM PST. Malwarebytes is working correctly, though

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@PhotM Nope not here last one was last night @2330 MST and that was MSE 1.235.2715.0 ahh well no news is good news (as the saying goes) Win7x64/86, 8.1, 10 all quiet calm before the storm perhaps?

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Bill C. wrote:

The last one I got was 1.235.2715.0 dated 12/13/2017 @ 4:16AM. Nothing since. What ever it is it must be pretty major.

From the Defender Module in Powershell ISE:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-MpComputerStatus

AMEngineVersion : 1.1.13407.0
AMProductVersion : 4.8.207.0
AMServiceEnabled : True
AMServiceVersion : 4.8.207.0
AntispywareEnabled : True
AntispywareSignatureAge : 1
AntispywareSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-13 02:16:36 <<<<<<<
AntispywareSignatureVersion : 1.235.2715.0 <<<<<<<
AntivirusEnabled : True
AntivirusSignatureAge : 1
AntivirusSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-13 02:16:37 <<<<<<<
AntivirusSignatureVersion : 1.235.2715.0 <<<<<<<
BehaviorMonitorEnabled : True
ComputerID :
ComputerState : 0
FullScanAge : 31
FullScanEndTime : 2017-01-15 07:54:20
FullScanStartTime : 2017-01-14 16:00:00
IoavProtectionEnabled : True
LastFullScanSource : 2
LastQuickScanSource : 2
NISEnabled : True
NISEngineVersion : 2.1.12706.0
NISSignatureAge : 0
NISSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-14 07:04:55 <<<<<<<<
NISSignatureVersion : 116.72.0.0 <<<<<<<<
OnAccessProtectionEnabled : True
QuickScanAge : 0
QuickScanEndTime : 2017-02-14 16:03:03
QuickScanStartTime : 2017-02-14 16:01:38
RealTimeProtectionEnabled : True
RealTimeScanDirection : 0
PSComputerName :

See ‘<<<<<<‘ above.

I have no idea why NIS is showing today’2 date and time because it comes with the Signature Definitions. Besides that, that is the same version that it has been for weeks. I believe the time is UTC not MST where I am.

Another thing that happened a few short minutes ago, MS Community just sent me an Email dated yesterday. There is no time on them but that is an unusual amount of latency.

Best Regards,

Crysta

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At 9:55PM EST, I just received my first MSE definitions update 1.235.2849.0 created at 5:32 PM.

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PhotM

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Me Tooo!

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-MpComputerStatus

AMEngineVersion : 1.1.13407.0
AMProductVersion : 4.8.207.0
AMServiceEnabled : True
AMServiceVersion : 4.8.207.0
AntispywareEnabled : True
AntispywareSignatureAge : 0
AntispywareSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-14 16:53:58 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
AntispywareSignatureVersion : 1.235.2855.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
AntivirusEnabled : True
AntivirusSignatureAge : 0
AntivirusSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-14 16:53:59 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
AntivirusSignatureVersion : 1.235.2855.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
BehaviorMonitorEnabled : True
ComputerID :
ComputerState : 0
FullScanAge : 31
FullScanEndTime : 2017-01-15 07:54:20
FullScanStartTime : 2017-01-14 16:00:00
IoavProtectionEnabled : True
LastFullScanSource : 2
LastQuickScanSource : 2
NISEnabled : True
NISEngineVersion : 2.1.12706.0
NISSignatureAge : 0
NISSignatureLastUpdated : 2017-02-14 07:04:55 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
NISSignatureVersion : 116.72.0.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
OnAccessProtectionEnabled : True
QuickScanAge : 0
QuickScanEndTime : 2017-02-14 20:07:02
QuickScanStartTime : 2017-02-14 20:03:57
RealTimeProtectionEnabled : True
RealTimeScanDirection : 0
PSComputerName :

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1. Tower Totals: 2xSSD ~512GB, 2xHHD 20 TB, Memory 32GB

SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
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I have just installed 1.235.2855.0, dated Feb 15, 2017 2:40 AM UTC. (It’s early morning where I am and I’ve just got up.)

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Windows 10 Defender new Definition Updates are available.

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People are posting here as though Windows Defender updates haven’t been coming in for them.

From what I can see, filtering for event 2000, I’ve been getting Antivirus and AntiSpyware updates all along… Am I misinterpreting something being said or implied here?

-Noel

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Guess your a special case with Microsoft, Noel, or your using a different set to the rest of us???

My last successful check in Events for 2000, was shortly after 11:00 MST yesterday(I do Shutdown over night). the next successful attempt was 19:00 MST this evening.

That is in line with what many other here and on patchmanagement.org have been seeing.

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SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
1xOS W8.1 Pro, NAS Dependent, Same Sony above.

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Hmmm…. In my case the Windows Update service is normally Disabled, so that I can control when the system is updated. Windows Defender just falls back and updates itself (this has been normal behavior for a very long time).

Maybe Defender knows better how to find its own updates than Windows Update does?

I have now, for example, updates version 1.235.2855.0

This is advantage 27B to controlling one’s updates I guess.

-Noel

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ch100

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@Noel
Maybe Defender knows better how to find its own updates than Windows Update does?

This is the likely reason. Defender was working all this time, including its own native update mechanism, while new updates published on Microsoft Update were blocked for a while due to a back-end fault. Old patches were still available on MU.

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woody

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My WU/AU/MU are locked down to on both W 8.1 Pro and W 10.0 Pro.

I have a scheduled signature update run once an hour on W 8.1 which is what I have been on the last 2 days. On W 10.0 the Scheduler is in various states of repair my MS so it is not as consistent. On W 8.1 Pro I have not had an AutoUdate for WD since I locked it down.

I forgot to say, if I am correct WD checks on MU first, then MMPC.

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SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
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Noel Carboni

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Unprecedented, yes, but undoubtedly a correct decision.

So Microsoft still had some sort of internal testing after all? I was under the impression that Satya fired their professional testing team back in 2014, haha.

I can’t imagine what will happen if the updates were released and they caused widespread problems worldwide.

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.

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However, if Microsoft had not implemented its “roll-up” model of updates, then perhaps we may still get the security updates minus the troublesome ones.

Will Microsoft release February security updates later by taking out the troublesome ones from the roll-up? Or would it simply delay all updates until March? And how about the IE security update that was supposed to be separately issued starting in February?

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.

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Likely, the postponement of the Feb 2017 Patch Tuesday is bc M$ are encountering major problems trying to add the optional May to Aug 2015 Convenience Update Rollups to the mandatory and cumulative Feb 2017 Patch Rollup.

Eg the non-cumulative and optional May 2015 Rollup is like a Win 7 SP2(= about 300+MB in size for 32bit) and contains all the important updates from SP1(= 2011) until end April 2015.

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1- Adding optional fixes is not going to happen with Security Rollup, they are added first to Preview Rollup

2- You think they hold ALL procucts updates just for the sake of Windows 7?
don’t you get tired of hate-Microsoft assumptions

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It’s really weird. As best I can tell, ALL of the patches are being held, including Office, IE, .NET, etc.

Wonder what’s going on?

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@ abbodi86

Fyi, I was only repeating what ch100 has stated about M$ adding previous rollups/patches to the new post-Oct 2016 monthly Patch Rollups beginning in Feb 2017, which info is also sourced from M$,

“Over time, Windows will also proactively add patches to the Monthly Rollup that have been released in the past. Our goal is eventually to include all of the patches we have shipped in the past since the last baseline, so that the Monthly Rollup becomes fully cumulative and you need only to install the latest single rollup to be up to date. We encourage you to move to the Monthly Rollup model to improve reliability and quality of updating all versions of Windows.”

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/10/07/more-on-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-servicing-changes/

[Edited for content. Please follow the Lounge Rules posted below -WL]

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Looks like the Security updates are flowing again as at 0230 MST (don’t ask me whyI am up its not by choice, dedication or one of the legendry fix XP all nighter’s from yester-year)

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BobbyB wrote:

Looks like the Security updates are flowing again as at 0230 MST

I don’t see any security updates. Which ones are you seeing?

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Woody, He is talking about the WD “Signature Definitions”, Technically they are also Security Updates, just for a different reason than Patches.

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SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
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I’m guessing that postponement of Patch Tuesday may well become more of a regular thing now that all standard Windows updates are rolled into a combined patch. If there’s a rogue element in one part of the patch they won’t be able to pull it in isolation as they used to be able to do with separate individual updates, so the whole lot has to be suspended.

I’ve no idea whether the MSE definition update hiatus was related to the postponement but I assume it was. I wasn’t around yesterday so didn’t notice any lack of update but when I switched on half an hour ago it automatically installed 1.235.2880.0.

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woody wrote:

It’s really weird. As best I can tell, ALL of the patches are being held, including Office, IE, .NET, etc.

Wonder what’s going on?

I think MJ’s article covers it well in the Update she got from MS:

Microsoft delays its usual Patch Tuesday updates
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delays-its-usual-patch-tuesday-updates/

Update: A Microsoft spokesperson said the company had nothing to say beyond the statement above. Meanwhile, some of my contacts are saying they are hearing a problem with Microsoft’s build system might be the reason for today’s patch delay.

Microsoft’s build system

Is code for “Compilation, Processing and Server Distribution System or ‘Backend'” which we know as AU/MU/WU, as it has evolved with W 10 Update/Upgrade/CU and now W 8 & W 7 CU’s. Thus an earlier assertion I made in an Email, when they are augmenting this very process for W 10(sometimes breaking it for both W 10 & W 8) it really gets broken for W 7, by my observations.

I have provide feedback in real time on Twitter(and non real time with other methods) about my experiences here in Calgary, MST, when ever I have had problems. Others have to. I rarely get responses back but THEY ARE LISTENING CLOSELY. This last IP Build 15031 took about 36 hour to get to me. Jason at @Windowsinsiders, when it was well over 24 hours, started pinging me,”is there yet?”. It did not arrive until 22.55 MST that evening, which I tweeted to them as it was Downloading.

In other words all of this Feedback including there own telemetry goes/went into that distribution decision, yesterday, if in fact it was a Distribution problem. Of that specifically, nobody is talking but they rarely do.

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1. Tower Totals: 2xSSD ~512GB, 2xHHD 20 TB, Memory 32GB

SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
1xOS W8.1 Pro, NAS Dependent, Same Sony above.

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It HAS to be a screw-up with the distribution system – more specifically, I’m convinced that WU is broken.

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WU broken … I don’t like the sound of it. Or what if it is not broken, but corrupted?

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Is that a bad or a good thing?

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You experts have it all wrong. Totally wrong.

Yesterday was Valentines Day. Instead of acid drops, Microsoft sent all of us sweet nothing.

I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Gee shucks. Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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The delay continues to next Patch Tuesday

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/02/14/february-2017-security-update-release/

UPDATE: 2/15/17: We will deliver updates as part of the planned March Update Tuesday, March 14, 2017.

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YUP,

Did your read Mary Jo Foley’s and Woody’s article here?

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SSDs: 6xOS Partitions, 2xW8.1 Main & Test, 2x10.0 Test, Pro, x64

CPU i7 2600 K, SandyBridge/CougarPoint, 4 cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz
Graphics Radeon RX 580, RX 580 ONLY Over Clocked
More perishable

2xMonitors Asus DVI, Sony 55" UHD TV HDMI

1. NUC 5i7 2cores, 4 Thread, Memory 8GB, 3.1 GHz, M2SSD 140GB
1xOS W8.1 Pro, NAS Dependent, Same Sony above.

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abbodi86

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From comments at “Simplified servicing for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1: the latest improvements” (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2017/01/13/simplified-servicing-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-the-latest-improvements/):
“[Question from February 8, 2017] When can we expect the monthly updates to include all prior updates – not just the updates since Oct 2016? I.e. Win7 SP1 from the DVD + a monthly single update = fully patched?

[Answer from Microsoft employee Nathan Mercer] we are still working on this and don’t have any updated dates to share currently. We will update this post when we have something to announce.”

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Yep, and Nathan’s reply is dated Feb. 8.

Microsoft has been retiring old Win7 and 8.1 patches quickly. I wonder if the next Win7 and 8.1 Monthly rollups will go allllllll the way back to SP1/8.1 Update 1? That’d be hitting a grand slam on the first at bat.

Could happen. It’d be mighty strong incentive to hop to Group A. (But not enough for some, I know. )

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