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• 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

• 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