Flash player patch rolls out in a strange way

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It’s a Security Bulletin with standalone patches and no cumulative rollups or Security-only/Monthly Rollup components.

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Woody, recheck the KB number you are using. My search of MS Update Cat. renders KB4010250. I think you missed the second zero.

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woody

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It’s on WU on Win8.1
EDIT And WU on Win10 1607

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Why aren’t Flash updates and .NET Framework updates included in the 7/8.1 rollups? Why are they separate?

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Flash updates for IE in Win7 are not a part of Windows Update. THey are available on the Adobe website for IE, ActiveX, NPAPI, and other platforms and OSs.

Microsoft has announced that the Updates for IE 11/Edge Flash will be handled as separate updates for Win8.1/10 and not a part of the ROLLUP.
.NET updates have always been treated separately from Windows updates.

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What’s strange about the Microsoft Flash update for Windows 10 and 8.1 via Windows Update?

Looks just the same as usual to me:

• Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1607 (for x64-based Systems) (KB4010250).

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There aren’t supposed to be any Security Bulletins, starting this month.

This is the first month with separate IE/Edge patches for Win10.

There’s no documentation for the Win 8.1 patch in the usual place:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/24717/windows-8-1-and-windows-server-2012-r2-update-history

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I hope InfoWorld puts a more sensible headline on it then.

Documentation is no big deal (as usual for Microsoft).

Flash updates have never been in Cumulative Updates.

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InfoWorld‘s headline:

Microsoft rolls out KB 4010250 Flash Player update for Windows 8.1 and 10

In a bit of nostalgia, today’s patch is attached to a Security Bulletin and not included in cumulative updates

 

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abbodi86

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Flash updates were always separate from cumulative or IE updates

so besides the Security Bulletin, nothing strange i can see

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What’s so strange about letting a totally separate Flash Player patch go through MS Update?

This is the way these Flash updates have always been handled in Win 8/10.

What is strange is not to see any MSRT patch. They have also always been separate.

 

-- rc primak

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Woody at InfoWorld said;
“Microsoft was supposed to pull Internet Explorer patches out of the grouped Security-only and Monthly rollups for Windows 7 and 8.1, starting this month, and that finally happened.”

It has happened?

IE patches are not being removed from Monthly rollups. The change is only about reducing the size of the separate Security Only update:

The Monthly Rollup will continue to include updates for Internet Explorer, as a single additive update that provides all security and reliability fixes since the beginning of the new servicing model in October 2016. Users of the Monthly Rollup will not need to install the separate Internet Explorer update.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2017/01/13/simplified-servicing-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-the-latest-improvements/ (Simplified?!)

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@ b & woody, … To clarify the issue,

The new change that Mercer announced on Friday excludes Internet Explorer updates from the Security Only update starting with the February 2017 updates.

This means that Internet Explorer updates will be offered as standalone updates from that month onward similar to how Microsoft .NET Framework updates are offered.

The change reduces the size of the Security Only update. It means however that users and system administrators will have to install the Internet Explorer patches separately.

The Monthly Rollup update will include Internet Explorer updates just like before, so nothing changes on this front.

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/14/security-only-update-patches-internet-explorer/

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woody

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You’re right. Thanks!

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Should this be installed immediately?

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For Win8.1 and Win10 – it should be installed now through Windows Update..
For Win7 IE, the patch is available on the Adobe website. It is not a part of Win7 Windows Update.

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Thank you.

Besides Adobe Flash I also see that the Windows MSRT is also available.  Someone above mentioned he had not received it.

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MSRT update should arrive through Windows Update today.

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True, and done.

-- rc primak

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