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• Two odd Win10 cumulative updates, KB 4055254 and KB 9999786, appear to tackle the dot matrix printing problem

  Posted on November 23, 2017 at 08:47 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  On Tuesday, Microsoft released KB 4055038, a set of patches designed to fix the bug in this month’s Patch Tuesday security patches that took out Epson dot matrix printers.

  One big problem, as I mentioned on Wednesday: KB 4055038 only fixed the bug introduced in

  • Win 8.1 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048958
  • Win 8.1 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048961
  • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048957
  • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048960
  • Server 2012 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048959
  • Server 2012 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048962

  Which left unfixed the Epson dot matrix printer bugs in

  • Win10 1709 KB 4048955 Build 16299.64
  • Win10 1703 KB 4048954 Build 15063.726
  • Win10 1607 KB 4048953 Build 14393.1884
  • Win10 1511 Enterprise and Education only KB 4048952 Build 10586.1232
  • Win10 1507 LTSC only KB 4048956 Build 10240.17673

  Now we’re seeing news on this forum, and elsewhere, that Microsoft has released at least two patches to fix Windows 10.

  Win10 1709 KB 9999786  appeared on the Windows Update servers and in the Catalog (thx, @PerthMike), but a moderator on the Windows Server Technet site says:

  KB9999786 was accidently published as a test package to WSUS/Catalog. This package has been removed from WSUS/Catalog. Customers who downloaded KB9999786 should delete/remove this package.

  Win10 1703 KB 4055254 brings 1703 up to Build 15063.729 (Thx, @abbodi86). That one has a proper KB entry (click on the link), but it hasn’t yet been integrated into the usual Windows Support list.

  I would guess that there are fixes floating around for 1607, 1511 Enterprise and 1507 LTSC, but given Microsoft’s propensity for releasing patches before documenting them, I wouldn’t install any of them.

  Whotta mess.

  Uncategorized Epson dot matrix printer, KB 4055254, KB 9999786

• Microsoft releases KB 4055038, a dot matrix printer fix for bugs introduced last week

  Posted on November 21, 2017 at 19:22 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Last week I talked about a bug in all of this month’s Windows security patches that caused Epson dot matrix printer drivers to fail. The bug appeared in:

  • Win10 1709 KB 4048955 Build 16299.64
  • Win10 1703 KB 4048954 Build 15063.726
  • Win10 1607 KB 4048953 Build 14393.1884
  • Win10 1511 Enterprise and Education only KB 4048952 Build 10586.1232
  • Win10 1507 LTSC only KB 4048956 Build 10240.17673
  • Win 8.1 KB 4048958 2017-11 Monthly Rollup
  • Win 7 KB 4048957 2017-11 Monthly Rollup

  Microsoft didn’t acknowledge that the bug also appeared in the three Security-only manual updates, but I reported at the time that the bug apparently applied to those patches as well.

  Sometime in the past few hours, Microsoft released a fix for the bug in their security patch. The fix, called KB 4055038,  only applies to Win 7/Server 2008 R2, 8.1 and Server 2012, but at least Microsoft confirmed that the bug does appear in the manual Security-only patch for all three products. Here’s Microsoft’s list of the patched products:

  • Win 8.1 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048958
  • Win 8.1 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048961
  • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048957
  • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048960
  • Server 2012 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048959
  • Server 2012 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048962

  The Monthly Rollups are coming down the Windows Update chute. For those of you manually installing Security-only patches,you’ll have to head over to the Microsoft Update Catalog.

  Windows Patches/Security Epson dot matrix printer, KB 4055038

• Roundup of bugs in the November Patch Tuesday crop

  Posted on November 17, 2017 at 07:36 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Patch Tuesday problems continue, with a new acknowledgment from Microsoft about a dot matrix printer bug, continued reports of Win10 1703-to-1709 upgrades, one unconfirmed report of a forced 1607-to-1709 upgrade, and a memory violation error with CDPUserSvc

  If you have an Epson dot matrix printer, you’re hosed. EVERY patch this month will kill the driver — and it ain’t Epson’s fault.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security Epson dot matrix printer, November 2017 Black Tuesday