Tag Archives: Windows 7

Windows 7 update KB4103718: Network issues fixed

[German]A short information for administrators of Windows 7 and the server counterparts. Some users are reported network issues after installing update KB4103718. Now Microsoft has made some informal changes to the description of KB4103718 update regarding network issues, because the … Continue reading

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Windows 7 SP1 network bug (KB4103718/KB4103712)

[German]On Patchday, May 8, 2018, Microsoft has also released the updates KB4103718/KB4103712 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Now there are reports, that these updates may cause network issues.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server May 2018

[German]On May 8, 2018 Microsoft released several (security) updates (KB4103718, KB4103712) for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates (KB4103725, KB4103715) for Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Windows 7/8.1 Preview Rollup Updates (04/17/2018)

[German]Microsoft has released updates for Windows 7 (KB4093113), Windows 8.1 (KB4093121) and the relevant server counterparts as of April 17, 2018. These are the monthly preview rollup updates.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server April 2018

[German]On April 10, 2018 Microsoft released several (security) updates (KB4093118, KB4093108, KB4093114, KB4093115) for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Update KB4099950 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released update KB4099950 for Windows 7 SP1. It is a maintenance update to fix the problems with the virtual network adapters (NIC problem) caused by the KB4088875 and KB4088878 security updates of March 13, 2018.

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Windows 7 Jan./Feb. 2018 patches opens Total Meltdown vulnerability

[German]It seems that things went terribly wrong. Microsoft's Meltdown updates shipped in January 2018 and February for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) intended to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability rip open a huge security hole. This allows any process under … Continue reading

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Windows 7: Preview Rollup Update KB4088881 (03/23/2018)

[German]Microsoft released Preview Rollup Update KB4088881 for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on March 23, 2018. Here is some information about the update and the answer whether you should install the update … Continue reading

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Network issues with Updates KB4088875 / KB4088878

[German]Microsoft's security updates KB4088875 and KB4088878 for Windows 7 SP1/Server 2008, released March 13, 2018, causes serious network issues with virtual network adapters. They lose their static IP address and are switched to DHCP address assignment.

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Update ‘WindowsUpdateTest–System–7/12/2015’ on WSUS

[German]It's a strange case I'm stumbled upon last days: A German blog reader observed a very curious update for Windows 7 on WSUS . Here's some information, maybe one of you can confirm this or even better, has an explanation.

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