The Exchange team is aware of issues with the Windows Operating System updates published July 10th, 2018 causing Exchange to not function correctly. The Windows servicing team has advised us that the...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Hi team,
"For operating systems prior to Windows 2016, the update will be applied as an additional update to the updates released on July 10th. This means you must apply the July 10th update and then may need to execute Windows Update again to receive the additional update to fully resolve the issue."
You sure? For example, for KB4338831 it reads, "This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part KB4338815 (released July 10, 2018) and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update..", implying it is a replacement like the KB4345418 for WS2016. It seems that for older OS'es there is an update (for the related security update) and a replacement (for the July update).
- You need servicing stack update - not a comulative update, this one is needed for update process to work correctly.
- According to the Windows Servicing team, for the non Windows Server 2016 operating systems, it is required that the update released on July 10th be installed for Windows update to offer the new update. The is because the update is a patch to the previous package. Windows update chooses updates based upon packages previously installed on these operating systems.
- Corresponding SSU was released in May, if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't require reboot and really small one.
If you're not up-to-date with Windows updates you will get error “the update is not applicable....” while trying to install KB4345418 for Windows 2016.
This is because KB4345418 replaces KB4132216 which has KB4132216 (released in May) as a prerequisite.
Prerequisite: The servicing stack update (SSU) (KB4132216) must be installed before installing the latest cumulative update (LCU) (KB4338814). The LCU will not be reported as applicable until the SSU is installed.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338814/windows-10-update-kb4338814
Looks like the article for KB4345418 doesn’t mention that.
- Is this because the SSU is included out of WU/MU? This would not be the case for a managed Environment, since the the SSU is Installed first and separately, if I am not mistaken.
Therefore, if the SSU was downloaded from the Catalog and installed would this suffice and meet the necessary requirements?