Microsoft yanks buggy November rollup KB 4049016for .NET Framework on Win7 and Server 2008 R2

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Günter Born notes: I received a comment, claiming that Update KB4049016 is no longer available. I’ve searched Microsoft Update Catalog, and indeed, th
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I was wondering what happened to it. It was offered by Windows Update to all 3 of my WIN 7 machines for a few days after it was published (11/14/2017). Then a few days ago, it disappeared from the list of available updates on all 3. I just figured it was a Windows Update screw-up, and so didn’t go looking for it in the Catalog or support pages. I seem to recall that there were no security updates in it, but I could be wrong.

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If someone really, really, really still wants this, the Oct Preview of this buggy .Net update for Win7 & Server 2008 R2 (KB4042076) is still available for download in the Microsoft Update Catalog.

Win7 - PRO & Ultimate, x64 & x86
Win8.1 - PRO, x64 & x86
Groups A, B & ABS

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Yep, and the October preview is being offered to me by Windows Update as an optional update. That seems really shifty to me. If you’re going to pull a patch, then pull it, but don’t dangle it to people (even as a preview) when you know darn well it causes problems.

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Anyone keeping track of how many of these updates are getting pulled?

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walker

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I try to publish an accounting in Computerworld, but it’s frequently hard to figure out the “why” — and sometimes even the “what.”

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Perhaps the reason is because Microsoft is expected to update the metadata-supersedence relationship between the October 2017 and November 2017 .NET Framework updates, according to a comment from Microsoft employee Rich Lander at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/14/net-framework-november-2017-security-and-quality-rollup/.

Three other updates (4049017, 4049018, 4049019) listed at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/14/net-framework-november-2017-security-and-quality-rollup/ are also not available in the catalog now.

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Since October Preview Rollup = November Security Rollup

maybe that’s why they took November’s rollup down, no need to have two entries/rollups with exactly the same bundled updates

or probably metadata revision, like @MrBrian said

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If it’s just a matter of making it supersede the Oct one, it’s odd to just pull first instead of replace… but also means there’s no actual issue in the patch that they’re fixing at a later time, so no worries for those who did install it, right?

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Correct :).

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walker

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Updates 4049016, 4049017, 4049018, and 4049019 are back in the catalog, and they don’t need to be reinstalled according to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/894199/software-update-services-and-windows-server-update-services-changes-in.

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MrBrian wrote:

Updates 4049016, 4049017, 4049018, and 4049019 are back in the catalog, and they don’t need to be reinstalled according to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/894199/software-update-services-and-windows-server-update-services-changes-in.

MrBrian,

Thanks for the update. You are faster than me ! ! KB 4049016 just showed up on Windows Update again this morning for me also.

Dave

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MrBrian

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KB4049016 is still being offered in my Windows Update.
I had hid it and just now unhid it and did a windows update check twice and it is still being offered as recommended and checked.
Is this ok to install now?

 

oops! sorry.  I just read MrBrian’s post from yesterday.

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Reminder: we’re still on DEFCON-2

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PKCano wrote:

Reminder: we’re still on DEFCON-2

Yes, everything is on hold until the go ahead!

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