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KB5041578 causing Windows Server 2019 to be unresponsive
In testing the August 2024 security update for Windows Server 2019 (KB5041578) we are finding the update causes some Windows Server 2019 servers to become unresponsive. There is also a thread on...
Thanks - my response to Microsoft would be that if I could get logged into the problem system, I would just uninstall the patch myself! How can they expect us to do this when some companies have hundreds of servers that could potentially have this issue. And I don't want to apply this to all systems, because the problem isn't happening on all systems. Ugh. Can't wait to see what September brings!
TammySanders while it took a little bit i had no issues remotely stopping the cypto service, deleting the data in the folder referenced above and rebooting to resolve the performance issues. There was no need to remove the patch.
speculating here but this has hit a small subset of our systems, specifically systems that were last patched in april 2024 unlike most which was patched the previous month. My thoughts are that systems that have missed previous CU's may be impacted.