{"id":3829,"date":"2017-09-22T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2024-10-05T23:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:26:02","slug":"windows-server-2012-r2-kb4036479-install-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/09\/22\/windows-server-2012-r2-kb4036479-install-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2012 R2: KB4036479 install issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Stop.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>[English]Today a short note for administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 who intends to install update KB4036479. This update shall prevents restarts in Hyper-V, but is causing install issues.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Blog reader Marco R. shared his experiences with me via e-mail (thanks for that). Here are the details.<\/p>\n<h2>What is KB4036479 for?<\/h2>\n<p>Update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4036479\/eliminate-restarts-in-virtual-machine-initial-configuration-in-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB4036479<\/a> (Eliminate restarts in virtual machine initial configuration in Windows Server 2012 R2) is intended to eliminate restarts in Hyper-V VMs under Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft says in the linked KB article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you create a virtual machine by using Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2, a restart occurs during initial machine configuration (IMC). This update eliminates the restart step in the IMC process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The packet is shipped via Windows Update, so everything seems fine and many administrators are accepting this update \u2013 I guess.<\/p>\n<h2>KB4036479 is causing endless reboots<\/h2>\n<p>Marco R. tried to install this update on a machine with Windows Server 2012 R2 and observed the following.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4036479\/eliminate-restarts-in-virtual-machine-initial-configuration-in-windows\">KB4036479<\/a> caused in his environment endless restarts on his virtual Windows 2012 R2 Servers.<\/p>\n<p>The update is displayed as \"Successfully installed\" in Windows Event Log after each restart, but shortly afterwards the installation process starts again&#8230; and so on. Seems to be such a problem again, where the update is not recognized correctly, whether the update was installed successfully or not.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the update should avoid restarts under Hyper-V, or did I misunderstand something? maybe this info saves another admin a few hours of effort in which he does not install the update.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps this helps other admins running into this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[English]Today a short note for administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 who intends to install update KB4036479. This update shall prevents restarts in Hyper-V, but is causing install issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,22,2],"tags":[355,1049,195,567],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-update","category-windows","tag-hyper-v","tag-kb4036479","tag-update","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36103,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/36103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}