Newsletter Archives

• Problems with yesterday’s Win10 1709 patch, KB 4090913, starting to appear

  Posted on March 6, 2018 at 07:26 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m seeing some reports of problems with yesterday’s Patch Monday single-purpose cumulative update for Win10 1709.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  UPDATE: We have a report of the “reboot to black” bug in the Win7 Feb. Monthly Rollup KB 4074598.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4074598, KB 4090913, KB 4090914, Win10 1709

• Microsoft claims it’s solved the USB problem with Win10 1709 cumulative update KB 4090913

  Posted on March 5, 2018 at 20:15 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Welcome to Patch Monday!

  A few hours after I posted my diatribe in Computerworld, taking Microsoft to task for not fixing Win10 Fall Creators Update, version 1709, wouldn’tcha know it, but Microsoft released yet another cumulative update for 1709 that claims to fix one (not all) of the admitted problems with Win10 FCU.

  KB 4090913 brings Win10 version 1709 up to build 16299.251.

  According to the KB article its sole raison d’être is fixing the USB bug introduced in the last cumulative update.

  Addresses an issue in which some USB devices and onboard devices, such as a built-in laptop camera, keyboard, or mouse, stop working. This may occur when the Windows Update servicing stack incorrectly skips installing the newer version of some critical drivers in the cumulative update and uninstalls the currently active drivers during maintenance.

  That’s all she wrote. The other bugs are still there:

  • Windows Update History reports that KB4054517 failed to install because of error 0x80070643.
  • After installing this update, some devices may fail to start, and return INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
  • Because of an AD FS server issue that causes the WID AD FS database to become unusable after a restart, the AD FS service may fail to start. / There is no way to undo the database corruption. To return your AD FS server to a functional state, you must restore it from a backup.

  There’s also an out-of-out-of-band Servicing Stack update, KB 4090914.

  I suggest you hold off until we find out if this patch actually fixes the problem, or if some other ogre jumps out and bites.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4090913, KB 4090914, March 2018 Black Tuesday, Win10 1709