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Thanks for the lesson in update retirement practice.

Still the January Security Only Rollup has been superseded by the March as well as the April and May Security Only Rollups to the effect KB3212642 must be considered obsolete.

Regards, VZ

 

The answer to this is: The MS17-010 patches have been around since March. No point in asking if they will be offered. Anything MS17- has been offered prior to April.

Are you saying in order to be superseded, any given update also must be retired?

The January Security Only Rollup, that isn’t one, has been superseded by the March as well as the April and May Security Only Rollups, that aren’t ones, to the effect KB3212642 must be considered obsolete.

Regards, VZ

For the sake of keeping things simple I’m suggesting to remove KB3212642, KB4012204, KB4016446 and KB4014661.

The January Security Only Rollup has turned out to be fully incorporated in (superseded by) any subsequent Security Only Rollup to date, i.e. Security Only Rollups of March, April and May.

No need to mention the Cumulative Security Update for IE  by definition supersedes any of its predecessors.

Regards, VZ

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As a general rule the msu files must be considered updates to Windows (.NET Framework versions that ship with it), as opposed to the exe files being updates to programs (optional .NET Framework versions). The msu file applies in any case, while applicability of the exe files depends on the presence of the respective higher .NET Framework version. The msu file is the basic indicator of a .NET Framework Rollup installed.

Regards, VZ

You can’t have several of those installed either, because the blockage won’t let you run the Standalone Installer. 🙂

Sure, but you’re never in the situation of having to remove two blocking rollups at once. 🙂

But…then you don’t have April’s and May’s blocking installed – only May’s. 🙂

This means you uninstalled the April Rollup first. 🙂

Hi MrBrian,

how were you able to install the May Rollup with April’s CPU blocking in place? 🙂

You’re only uninstalling a Monthly Rollup to be able to install the next one.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/first-sightings-of-the-win7-update-block-for-kaby-lake-and-ryzen-processors/#post-103898

For a less challenging approach, Windows Update will be usable after uninstalling the previous month’s Security and Quality Rollup.

Regards, VZ

It doesn’t happen with a Windows Update Client version from June 2015 or later installed – e.g. KB3138612 or KB3172605.

Regards, VZ

This only happens if an Update Client version prior to 7.6.7601.18847 gets restored. 🙂

You’ll be perfectly fine with installing KB3191855 only. It’s going to make offering of KB3178690 disappear.

Classifying KB3191855 one step below security has the positive effect of not generating a new trigger of the Vista Update Search issue.

Regards, VZ

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