Newsletter Archives

• A real turkey of a Thanksgiving weekend: Disappearing patches KB 4049016 and 9999786, new patches 4055038, 405524, and how it’s all tied up in knots

  Posted on November 27, 2017 at 08:13 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Wotta weekend.

  Aren’t you glad you haven’t tried to install any patches this month?

  A quick summary of the weekend’s shenanigans. Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  UPDATE: From MrBrian:

  Updates 4049016, 4049017, 4049018, and 4049019 are back in the catalog, and they don’t need to be reinstalled according to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/894199/software-update-services-and-windows-server-update-services-changes-in.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4049016, KB 4055038, 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