Microsoft yanks buggy Office 2016 patch KB 4018385, re-publishes all of this month’s patches

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We’re just scraping the surface of this month’s bugs. Post coming in Computerworld.
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HiFlyer, Laptop Boy, OscarCP, WildBill, Elly, jburk07

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I don’t see the updates getting a revision in WSUS though.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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ch100, Nibbled To Death By Ducks

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Bizarre!

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There is no revision for the mentioned patches.
However KB4018385 has been made expired on WSUS and retired from MU.

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Ah.  If WSUS isn’t seeing date changes that’ll explain why SCCM isn’t either.

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On W7 Pro x64 I had KB4338818 and KB 4340556 both hidden in WU, decided to restore hidden and refresh WU..
lo and behold, no patches for this month

Edit: kb2952664 still hidden and no adobe flash.

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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I did a restore on the hidden (Kb4340556, Kb4338818, Kb4054530 wasn’t checked on July 11), Kb2952664) and they all came back unchecked except for Kb890830.

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Please do a check for updates and then report results.

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It’s kinda nice that Microsoft has given up on my old 2007 Office! Peaceful days!

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Woody asks:

Note to self: Who’s testing this stuff?

A manufacturing manager I once worked with in an industrial facility (we built custom fittings, not suitable for automation) used to call his welders on the carpet whenever their work failed to pass muster, and asked them the same question, until they got sick of hearing it:  “If you don’t think you have enough time to do the job right the first time, what makes you think you have enough time to do it TWICE??”

Sounds like a cogent question for the keyboard jockeys at MS.  On the other hand, with salesmen running the company, and setting goals and deadlines for work whose complexity is completely beyond them, we probably shouldn’t be surprised at the result.

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The biggest differences between faulty weldings and Ms software…

If a welding fails, it may cost lives, customers, reputation, equipment and money.

If (when) Ms software fails, it cost Ms absolutely nothing. Afaik nobody ever lost their life (maybe a blown brain fuse here and there), customers has locked themselves into the Ms system and don’t seems able to leave, Ms clearly don’t care about reputation and care even less about equipment that stops working due to an update and finally, Ms don’t pay anything for failed updates. Release the thing and let customers working for free figure out the errors…

So of course Ms releases half-thought-through and loosely tested updates and patches. It’s risk free and cheapest solution.

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Microsoft’s July 2018 patch mess – put update install on hold,

Think about stopping July 2018 update rollout to your machines.

https://borncity.com/win/2018/07/14/microsofts-july-2018-patch-mess-put-update-install-on-hold/

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“Network Monitoring Workloads”- Is this NewSpeak in IT? Possible clarification:

https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2017/06/12/the-art-and-science-of-workload-monitoring.aspx

But is it caused by the mere presence of the software used to  accomplish same, or does it refer to the act of  using said software? Aaargh. Maybe ESL engineers who think they’re real IT Tech Writers, or what? My head’s spinning again. Very confusing terms, “Network Monitoring Workloads”. How about “Network Monitoring Workload Software“?

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From here, KB4340556 remains dated July 10, KB4338818 is the same, except that though “important”, they are now unchecked after a WSUS  update this AM!

I’m not going to touch these with a 20-foot cattle prod until this all shakes out.  Man, who needs worldly aggro when we have this nonsense.  It’s the Bizzaro world, for sure. Many thanks to those who are trying to separate the wheat from the, er, ….chaff.

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https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/e9b621f6-f38c-488e-8fcb-ff85d406f256/azure-ad-connect-health-sync-monitor-high-cpu-usage?forum=WindowsAzureAD

Plenty of people complaining about security and .NET updates in both 2012R2 and 2016 in relation to the health sync for ADSync.  Causes massive CPU usage after about 15 to 20 minutes.  Highly suggest holding off on those types of patches.

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