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• Windows Server 2012 (not R2) goes into reboot loop after installing .NET patch KB 4533096

  Posted on December 12, 2019 at 04:53 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m seeing many reports of reboot loops after folks install KB 4533096 – the “Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8 for Windows Server 2012 ”

  From Pradeep Soni on the Patchmanagement list:

  Post installation server stuck in reboot loop with onscreen repetitive notifications, “Notifying services that Windows is shutting down -> Stopping services -> Restarting”.

  Later, pressed F8 to bring out the Advanced Boot Options and selected “Start Windows Normally” and server booted without any issues. Again restarted the server and it came up normally and no further issues detected.

  Apparently you can also boot into Safe Mode. That boot won’t work, either, but your next normal boot will.

  UPDATE: It’s possible that this month’s MSRT is at fault, instead of the .NET patch. Note this thread on the Technet forum that describes the same problem with the November MSRT update.

  This Spiceworks thread talks about this month’s problem, but (so far) the culprit hasn’t been identified.

  Windows Patches/Security December 2019 Black Tuesday, KB 4533096, Server 2012

• Infinite reboots reported with Server 2012 (not R2) installing the Servicing Stack Update KB 4523208

  Posted on November 18, 2019 at 14:06 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  We just had a report from @windowswarrior:

  this issue presented to all affected Servers with the Servicing Stack Update (KB4523208)… this issue presented to all affected Servers with the Servicing Stack Update (KB4523208)

  This didn’t happen on all of their systems. windowswarrior is trying to track down the problem.

  I see that u/mosiac on Reddit had a similar problem:

  This morning we were awoke by the sound of vcenter alarms due to high memory usage on specific VMs. Come to find out we had a boot loop scenario after our update window fro only Server 2012 boxes (not R2).

  Anybody out there having similar problems?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4523208, Server 2012