Installation and Patching
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45 votes
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More that "Preparing" in Server 2016
When patching Windows Server 2016 (maybe 10 as well) it always says "Preparing to install". Doesn't matter if it's checking for updates, downloading updates, or installing updates. It always shows "Preparing to install". Right now I'm patching three new Server 2016 VM Templates and they all show "Preparing to install updates xx%".
Can we please go back to the Win2012 and previous messages that showed what was actually being done, not what we're preparing for?
1 vote -
Show more detail when installing updates during shutdown/reboot
Installing a Windows Server 2016 cumulative update (e.g. after setting up a new server) can take pretty long. After a few minutes, the unchanging message "Getting Windows ready / Don't turn off your computer", despite its looping dots, stops inspiring confidence that progress is being made.
Monitoring %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log helps slightly, at least until "CommitPackagesState: Started persisting state of packages".
I would therefore request that
* on Windows Server, and optionally on Windows 10 as a configurable option, the "Getting Windows ready" screen shows additional detail, similar to the output in CBS.log (e.g. "processing package 1564/7144 for KB4025339")
* if possible,…20 votes -
installation of kb4038777 on 2008 R2 domain controllers causes LDAP to break for certain applications.
after much troubleshooting this morning, we were forced to uninstall kb4038777 on our 2008 r2 domain controllers and restart them. it appears LDAP authentication is failing over port 389 for a handful of our applications, as well as our production mailarchiva instance.
was curious if anyone else had seen / experienced similar.
1 vote -
KB4035036 - .NET Preview August 2017 for .NET 4.6.1 installs .NET 4.7 DLLs
Hi All,
it looks like that ndp46-kb4033990-x64 one of the Updates included in
KB4035036-August 2017 Preview of the Quality Rollups for the .NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, and 4.7 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/4035036)patches the wrong .NET 4.6.1 DLLs on a Windows 2008 R2 Server.
Registry sill says .NET 4.6.1 (394271) is installed, but
the new patched files have a signature from 4.7.
For e.g: mscorlib.dll has after the patch 4.7.2106.0.There a some third-party products, that have problems with .NET 4.7, like OpenEdge Progress.(https://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/gui-net-application-crashes-after-net-upgrade-to-4-7).
And after…
2 votes -
KB3213986 Causes Logon Failures When Starting BITS Service - Please fix
After installing update KB3213986 on Server 2016 Desktop Experience, a failed logon is logged every time the BITS service is started.
Failed Logon Event:
Log Name: Security
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date: 2/27/2017 1:27:10 PM
Event ID: 4625
Task Category: Logon
Level: Information
Keywords: Audit Failure
User: N/A
Computer: PLB-DXX-TP01.dev-products.local
Description:
An account failed to log on.Subject:
Security ID: SYSTEM
Account Name: PLB-DXX-TP01$
Account Domain: DEV-PRODUCTS
Logon ID: 0x3E7Logon Type: 5
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID: NULL SID
Account Name: -
Account Domain: -Failure Information:
Failure Reason: An Error occured during Logon.
Status: 0xC0000073
Sub Status: 0xC0000073…
34 votes -
KB4015553 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL 2008 R2 creates System Kernel Process Handle/Thread Leak
KB4015553 on a Windows Server 21012 R2 with SQL 2008 R2 creates a System Kernel Process Handle/Thread Leak. It is easy to see in the Task Manager after adding the Handle/Thread count columns. The counts increase nearly 1 per second until the OS and system is unresponsive and collapses.
Another indicator is in the event logs, 4231 events appear: Description:
A request to allocate an ephemeral port number from the global TCP
port space has failed due to all such ports being in use.But the ephemeral port alert is not the root cause.
7 votes -
Remove supersedence logic from Server 2012 R2 security patches
Currently the non quality security updates are superseded by the security quality updates. This causes most of the standard reporting to break for companies that do not need or want the quality updates for security patches. 3rd party scanners also will show servers as non patched if a company only installs the non quality package. Please do not set the quality updates to supersede the non quality updates. This will prevent companies from having to spend large amounts of development time to rework their processes that worked for several years.
6 votes -
Configuration process - wait for Update to complete, before "auto-restart"
Hi Dev Team,
Configuration process (Add / Remove Roles) should check if Updates are being downloaded / installed, before restarting the system.
Cheers
4 votes -
Give us back lightning-fast Updates
Consider having the entire Component-based Servicing Infrastructure running from RAM if available and as far as is possible.
I've done extensive analysis and testing to what CSI is actually doing. While no doubt it is much much more secure/reliable then for example WinXP updates were, it does have a significant drawback, which hurts even more in Virtualization. Let me ask you: What do you commonly have enough of in Virtualization ? CPU ? Yes, Mem. ? Usually, also yes, Network ? Usually, yes, Disk I/O ? NO. Usually, disk I/O is the common bottleneck in most Virtualization-environments I've come across…
11 votes -
Resume monthly Windows Update rollup releases for Windows 2012R2
The monthly Windows Update rollup releases greatly sped up creating a machine from scratch, upgrading an image to latest, and just patching machines. These rollups ceased shipping in December 2014. There has been no rollup release in over 14 months for the current latest production server OS from Microsoft.
This translates to over a hundred updates (about 150 past the last rollup) and a few reboots, multiple ngen passes for .Net that aren't needed. Only the last of these time-costly operations needs to run, a handy side-effect the rollup has.
Instead on thousands of tens of thousands of sysadmins spending…
26 votes -
Stop advertising unnecessary updates for server OS
Each month for the last 2 years, a manual check of Microsoft Update reveals a lot of what I call junk or unwanted updates. For example, why in the earth should a Win2008/2012 server receive updates related to Surface3? Or why is some obscure critical updates presented on an English Server OS, when the fix is for some excotic Chinese languge setting? If somebody would really ready all the KB articles that follow each month, you would be really astonished over the sheer number of unwanted updates. And it takes time to download, deploy and install. Not a problem if…
9 votes -
Fewer restarts for updates
There should be fewer restarts for updates. Especially for storage servers and network routers it's a hassle to reboot.
Clustering all relevant servers is too much a hassle.
85 votes
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