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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 – Feb 22 2018 releases

  Posted on February 23, 2018 at 06:25 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  More info in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Woody already posted about these updates here, but I’ll be tracking any side effects in this post.  If there are any major issues I’m sure either I or Woody will give an update!

   

  Patch Knowledge Base Article	Operating system	Safe to install?	Issues being tracked	Fixing or patching
  KB4077528	Windows 10 1703	Optional	None at this time	Various issues including freezing of IE
  KB4077525	Windows 10 1607	Optional at this time	None at this time	No new security updates, fixing various issues
  KB4075211	Windows 7	Optional	None at this time	Preview of March non security update – Addresses issue where the Microsoft Outlook Web App slows down when running in Internet Explorer 11 in certain situations.
  KB4088835	Internet Explorer	Optional	None at this time	Addresses issue where the Microsoft Outlook Web App slows down when running in Internet Explorer 11 in certain situations.
  KB4075212	Windows 8.1	Optional	None at this time	Preview of March non security update
  KB4075213	Server 2012	Optional	None at this time	Preview of March non security update
  Surface Pro 3 Firmware	Surface Pro 3	Recommended	None at this time	Patches for Spectre/Meltdown

   

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4075211, KB 4075212, KB 4075213, KB 4077525, KB 4077528, KB 4088835, Surface Pro 3 Firmware

• Second round of cumulative updates for Win10 1607 and 1703, plus previews, just hit

  Posted on February 22, 2018 at 18:19 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  From @abbodi86:

  Updates are out
  —

  2018-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 (KB4077525) – that’s the second cumulative update in the past nine days for 1607

  2018-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 (KB4077528) – the second cumulative update in the past nine days for 1703

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 8.1 (KB4075212)

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 (KB4075211)

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 (KB4075213)

  For security-only Win7 users, IE11 got new cumulative to fix some issue: Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 (KB4088835)
  —

  heads up for Windows 10 Version 1703
  KB4077528 is only for English (US) systems,
  other languages do not attempt to install it, because it lacks any language specific components except en-us

  this is new kind of fiasco ?

  Oh boy. Wonder why 1709 didn’t get a second cumulative update?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4075211, KB 4075212, KB 4075213, KB 4077525, KB 4077528, KB 4088835, Win10 1703, Windows 10 1607