[German]Microsoft has released the preview rollups KB4338821 for Windows 7 SP1 and KB4338831 for Windows 8.1 on July 18, 2018. Here is an overview of these updates.
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The updates are listed on this website (Windows 7) and on this website (Windows 8.1).
KB4338821 for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2
Update KB4338821 (2018-07-18 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems) is available for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 as Preview of Monthly Rollup. This is not a security update. The preview rollup contains the patches from the monthly rollups and also addresses the following issues:
- Addresses additional issues with updated time zone information.
- Addresses an issue that may cause some devices running network monitoring workloads to receive the 0xD1 Stop error because of a race condition after installing the July update.
- Addresses an issue that may cause the restart of the SQL Server service to fail occasionally with the error, "Tcp port is already in use".
- Addresses an issue that occurs when an administrator tries to stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC). The W3SVC remains in a "stopping" state, but cannot fully stop or it cannot be restarted.
With the exception of the time zone update, this update fixes the bugs described in the blog article Windows 7/8.1: Revised Updates July 16, 2018 (Update KB4345459). The difference is that Update KB4338821 is now distributed as an optional update via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog, while Update KB4345459 was only available in Update Catalog.
Update KB4338821 unfortunately has the bug that has been known for months: Third party software that refers to a missing file (oem<number>.inf) causes the network interface controller to fail after installing this update. Microsoft specifies as a workaround that the driver should be installed manually in the device manager using the driver search. If you are not affected by the bugs mentioned above, you should hide the update
KB4338831 for Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2
Update KB4338831, June 18, 2018, is available for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 as Preview of Monthly Rollup. This is not a security update. The preview rollup addresses the following problems:
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- Addresses additional issues with updated time zone information.
- Addresses an issue that causes memory leaks until it becomes necessary to restart the system; for example, when using AppLocker to manage application usage.
- Addresses an issue in which copying EFS-encrypted files from a client machine to a server share copies the files as encrypted instead of warning the user.
- Addresses an issue that prevents printing on a 64-bit OS when 32-bit applications impersonate other users (typically by calling LogonUser). This issue occurs after installing monthly updates starting with KB4034681, released in August 2017. To resolve the issue for the affected applications, install this update, and then do one of the following:
- Use Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit to globally enable the Splwow64Compat App Compat Shim.
- Use the following registry setting, and then restart the 32-bit application:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print Setting: Splwow64Compat
Type: DWORDValue1: 1
- Addresses an issue that intermittently causes hypervisor to stop working with error code "0x20001".
- Addresses an issue in which LDAP Modify requests for group membership change. The LDAP_SERVER_PERMISSIVE_MODIFY_OID operator is used, and the membership modification operation is already true (member is already removed or already present). As a result, the SUCCESS status is returned and audit events 4728 and 4729 appear, which indicates that the operation was completed.
- Addresses an issue in which the LastAccessTime file property does not get updated as expected for files in dedup volume if the file's $Data extent is completely sparse. After installing this update, configure the following items in the registry:
- Set the value to 0 for HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate.
- Create the REG_DWORD item and set the value to 0 for HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ddpsvc\Settings\DisableLastAccessUpdate.
- Addresses an issue that may cause some devices running network monitoring workloads to receive the 0xD1 Stop error because of a race condition after installing the July update.
- Addresses an issue that may cause the restart of the SQL Server service to fail occasionally with the error, "Tcp port is already in use".
- Addresses an issue that occurs when an administrator tries to stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC). The W3SVC remains in a "stopping" state, but cannot fully stop or it cannot be restarted.
The update is optional and is offered via Windows Update, but can also be downloaded and installed via Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft is not yet aware of any problems with the update.
The last three fixes mentioned in the list above have already been fixed by the revision update KB4345424 (see blog article Windows 7/8.1: Revised Updates July 16, 2018).If the above issues are not relevant, I would hide the update and wait for the August 2018 update.
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