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• Win7 Monthly Rollup, KB 4462923, makes a sudden re-appearance

  Posted on November 1, 2018 at 14:49 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Remember how we’ve been having problems with KB 4462923, the October Win7 Monthly Rollup?

  Looks like there was a reason why Microsoft buried it so deep.

  @PKCano reports

  KB4462923 2018-10 Security Monthly Quality Rollup showed up CHECKED in the “important updates” on my Win7 today 11/1/18.

  On a test machine, I installed it along with the 2018-10 .NET Rollup and MSRT without an error (Note: the SSU KB3177467 v1 was installed on my machine in 2016)

  AFTER the reboot, KB3177467 v2, the Servicing Stack released 10/9/2018 appeared and installed without requiring a reboot. The hash is the same and the file size is the same. Must be a metadata change to let it install without an error before KB3177467 v2 (the SSU).

  I don’t see any documentation of this, anywhere.

  Now aren’t you glad you haven’t yet installed the October updates?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3177467, KB 4462923, October 2018 Black Tuesday

• Patch Lady – 7 Metadata problems

  Posted on October 15, 2018 at 12:40 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Patch Lady here – I patch over the weekend at my firm and normally the 7’s install their patches and go along their merry way.  But not this weekend.

  

  I came in this morning and none of my 7’s had installed KB3177467, nor have their received their October security update because the October security update depends on the installation of KB3177467.

  Mind you I installed KB3177467 BACK IN NOVEMBER OF 2016.  So it’s already ON my machines.

  

  Bottom line metadata and patch dependency is totally screwed up on Windows 7 platform and because of that the October security updates detection are screwed up.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3177467, Patch Lady Posts

• Microsoft seems to have pulled the October Win7 Monthly Rollup from Windows Update

  Posted on October 15, 2018 at 08:11 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Reliability. That’s what we need.

  If you’re looking for the Win7 Monthly Rollup, using Windows Update, you probably won’t find it.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3177467, KB 4462923, October 2018 Black Tuesday

• Solution for the error 0x8000FFF in Windows 7

  Posted on September 12, 2018 at 15:05 CDT by PKCano • Comment in the Forums

  Thanks to two reports from an anonymous poster and @Pradeep-Dixit here, there is a solution for the Error 0x8000FFF.

  It seems that an old Servicing Stack Update (or the lack of) is to blame for the error 0x8000FFF users have been experiencing with Windows 7 and the update this month. Servicing Stack KB 3177467 (September 2016) is a prerequisite for KB 4457144 2018-09 Security Quality Monthly Rollup for Win7. It must be installed prior to the September Rollup.

  This Servicing Stack Update KB 3177467 can be downloaded from the MS Update Catalog for 32-bit of 64-bit Windows 7.

  If you are not familiar with manual download/install from the Catalog, you can download the update by clicking on the 32-bit or 64-bit links above. Save the download to a known location. Close any open programs then double click on the downloaded file, agree to install, and reboot the computer when asked. After rebooting, you should be able to install the September Rollup. (Waiting for the DEFCON number to be 3 or above, of course.)

  This SSU also applies to Server 2008 R2

  Information  ComputerWorld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security error 0x8000FFF, KB 3177467, KB 4457144, Server 2008 R2, Windows 7

• Microsoft endorses a technique for installing Win7 from scratch

  Posted on March 7, 2017 at 04:09 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you’re looking at installing Win7 from scratch, you have a tough row to hoe.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 2533552, KB 3020369, KB 3172605, KB 3177467