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• Fourth Tuesday patches trickling in

  Posted on February 27, 2018 at 12:42 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  At this moment, I have notes for:

  KB 4018314 — February 26, 2018, update for Outlook 2010. As @MrBrian notes, the big fix here is:

  This update fixes the following issue:

  After you install KB4011273 on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003-based computer, you receive an error message that resembles the following when you start Microsoft Outlook 2010:

  CompareStringOrdinal not found in dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll

  The list of new KB articles also includes several re-posted .NET Preview KBs, KB 4074805 (February 2018 Preview of Quality Rollups for .NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1), KB 4074808 (February 2018 Preview of Quality Rollups for .NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1), and KB 4073701 (Description of Preview of Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 and for .NET Framework 4.6 on Server 2008 SP2), but none of the KB articles mention anything new (they’re still marked as last updated Feb. 23), and the three patches are still missing from the Windows Update Catalog.

  Poster bobcat5536 caught one I missed:

  Just did notice that Office 365 has yet another update released on the monthly channel yesterday. That makes 4 this month. Why don’t they rename it the weekly channel. This update stuff is just pure madness.

  And, sure enough, Microsoft’s official list bears him out.

  There’s a new bug posted for KB 4074598, the February Win7 Monthly Rollup, and KB 4074587, the Feb Win7 Security-Only patch, that triggers a bizarre error, “SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE”

  There’s a new bug posted for KB 4077525, the SECOND Monthly Rollup this month for Win10 1607:

  After installing this update, servers where Credential Guard is enabled may restart unexpectedly. The error is “The system process lsass.exe terminated unexpectedly with status code -1073740791. The system will now shut down and restart.”

  Event ID 1000 in the application log shows:

  “C:\windows\system32\lsass.exe’ terminated unexpectedly with status code -1073740791

  Faulting application: lsass.exe, Version: 10.0.14393.1770, Time Stamp: 0x59bf2fb2

  Faulting module: ntdll.dll, Version: 10.0.14393.1715, Time Stamp: 0x59b0d03e
  Exception: 0xc0000409

  I’m still looking for the Win10 1709 patch — the one that’s supposed to fix the USB and bluescreen problems.

  Did I miss anything?

  I’ll have a post in Computerworld when the dust settles.

  Windows Patches/Security 0xc0000409, 1073740791, CompareStringOrdinal, KB 4018314, KB 4073701, KB 4074587, KB 4074598, KB 4074805, KB 4074808, KB 4077525, Office 365, SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE, The system process lsass.exe terminated unexpectedly

• Patch Lady Posts – February’s Optional Updates

  Posted on February 22, 2018 at 00:44 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Patch Lady Susan here posting about more updates released today. As Woody pointed out earlier today, the optional .net updates were released today. What I don’t see out is any of the normal non security previews for Windows 7 and 8.1 that normally come out this week.

  There are some optional server updates that have been released but everything that was released is optional and does not need to be installed unless you have a specific need (like bumping up encryption levels on your Windows Software Update Server if you expose it publicly, or increasing TLS 1.1 encryption on RDS servers).

  The following optional updates were released today (or tonight depending on your time zone):

  [Updated 2/22/2018 for operating system edits – sorry about that!]

  Patch Knowledge Base Article	Operating system	Safe to install?	Issues being tracked	Fixing or patching
  KB4074837	Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2012 R2 (everything BUT Windows 10)	Optional	None at this time	DST changes for Namibia and the Turks and Caicos Islands
  KB4056448	Server 2008 SP2	Optional	None at this time	Adds SHA-2 encryption support to WSUS
  KB4072650	Server 2012 R2/2008R2	Optional	None at this time	HyperV component upgrade
  KB4039648	Server 2008 SP2	Optional	None at this time	SHA-2 Code signing support
  KB4074621	Server 2008 SP2	Optional	None at this time	Adds TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support for RDS
  KB4074834	Server 2008 sp2	Optional	None at this time	Fixes an issue when remoting from Windows 10 to Server 2008 sp2
  KB4074808	Preview of NET Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2, 4.5.2, and 4.6 for Windows Server 2008 SP2	Optional	None at this time	Fixes various issues with .NET
  KB4074807	Preview of NET Framework 3.5 SP1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows 8.1, RT 8.1 and Server 2012 R2	Optional	None at this time	Fixes various issues with .NET
  KB4074806	Preview of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows Server 2012	Optional	None at this time	Fixes various issues with .NET
  KB4074805	Preview of NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1	Optional	Issue with QB 2017 Enterprise	Fixes various issues with .NET

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4039648, KB 4056448, KB 4072650, KB 4074621, KB 4074805, KB 4074806, KB 4074807, KB 4074808, KB 4074834, KB 4074837, Patch Lady Posts

• .NET Quality Rollup Previews for Feb. 2018 are out

  Posted on February 21, 2018 at 21:23 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I count eleven of them, in the Catalog. KB 4074805, 6, 7 and 8.

  I don’t yet see them on the KBNew list.

  Of course there’s no reason to install them yet.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4074805, KB 4074806, KB 4074807, KB 4074808