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mramaley
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Sep 15, 2021

Unable to Print after installing 2021-09 Cumulative Update (KB5005573)

Anyone else having user print issues after installing this update on a Windows Server 2016 Standard? We can send jobs to the spooler just fine from the server itself, but a user submitted job is just...
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GeekNaHalf
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Sep 16, 2021

Here are the KB's to watch out for: (that I've found so far)

2016 - KB5005573 2019 - KB5005568 2012 - KB5005613

 

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GeekNaHalf
Copper Contributor
Sep 16, 2021
Updated list per: https://candid.technology/printnighmare-patch-windows-issue/
KB5005606 (Windows Server 2008)
KB5005618 (Windows Server 2008)
KB5005623 (Windows Server 2012)
KB5005607 (Windows Server 2012)
KB5005613 (Windows Server 2012 R2)
KB5005627 (Windows Server 2012 R2)
KB5005568 (Windows Server 2019)
KB5005615 (Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2)
KB5005565 (Windows 10 2004, 20H2, and 21H1)
KB5005566 (Windows 10 1909)

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    OneToad4u
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 20, 2021

    GeekNaHalf patching caused quite the commotion for me this morning. I ended up rolling back KB5005573 and restarted the print servers. It would appear that this has been long in the process according to this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/managing-deployment-of-printer-rpc-binding-changes-for-cve-2021-1678-kb4599464-12a69652-30b9-3d61-d9f7-7201623a8b25

     

    Unfortunately with everyone and anyone making noise about the issue... I did not feel I had enough time to research the root cause. That article would have been nice to be made aware of prior to patching this last weekend. 

     

    I am currently in the testing phase on that article to see if it works or not. I suspect it will work, but I'm not sure why Microsoft doesn't just address the problem rather than disable a feature that everyone seems to use.

    • SysAdminBAC's avatar
      SysAdminBAC
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 21, 2021
      I had issues with users saying their department printers were not showing up. With this regedit solution I was able to get them to pop back up! Thank you, I was about to rollover to the past update.
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        GeekNaHalf
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 22, 2021
        Glad it helped. I am also going to try and uninstall all printers and drivers from the DC, and then reinstall with only v4 drivers, re-apply the patch and see if users can still print. Hopefully that will correct the problems for W10 users at least. W7 clients are screwed regardless I think.
        If anyone hears of better solution(s), pls post.

        RS

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