Monthly Windows rollups lack of IE updates – Computable

Microsoft gets on bundled, cumulative Windows updates the monthly reports. This practice of Windows 10 will also be for 7 and 8.1, but appears not to be complete.

The end of los offered, individual updates for Windows coming next month already. Microsoft last month announced that it now updates combines into one complete update which is cumulative. The installing of patches and fixes should be easier for end users and administrators. They no longer need first, previous updates to install completely.

IE is the exception

In practice, there is talk of quite a bit of fragmentation in the patch-levels of Windows-systems that are in use. Some computers that are missing certain patches, new updates can cause problems. In addition, this allows for greater complexity in the testing of new updates. This applies to both Windows administrators prior to the roll-out of patches, as Microsoft before the release of the updates.

Now it turns out that there is a striking exception is the announced end of separate updates, which are selectable by end users and administrators. Updates for the Windows built-in web browser Internet Explorer (IE) come separate from. However, neither the Monthly Rollup (all updates), nor the security-only update for business users will be bug fixes for IE, bring in, announce Computerworld.com.

Work in progress

“We are working to IE included in the monthly rollup and the security-only update, but we still have no confirmed timetable before,” explains marketing manager, Nathan Mercer from Microsoft. He responds to forumvragen of users about the upcoming transition to monthly cumulative updates. It is according to Mercer, however, intended that IE patches at a given moment participate in the cumulative updates. It is not yet known when that should happen.

Until that time, have Windows users so in addition to the separate IE updates still have the choice to make monthly cumulative updates on a whole, to accept or not accept. Individual selection of single updates is no longer possible. Business users instead of Windows Update, the update software WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) or SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager), you can choose between the complete Monthly Rollup or the at the same time, smaller security-only maandupdate.

Updates can also disturb

While loose updates for uitzoek and test ensure, with critical choice will also be correct to avoid problems. It is in the past already been seen that a single update for Windows unintended side effects. This can cause a failure of a different component yield, or amount to incomplete patching of an open vulnerability.

update problems are still up to date. This ensures a just-released security update (KB3175024) for problems with Microsoft antimalwaretool EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) on Windows 7. The opening of an application can then 'freeze', in which the affected application is not fully boot. The cause is that EMET, the protective measure of Export Address table Filtering (EAF) to apply to applications, which conflicts with the changes that the conscious update any changes. Microsoft recommends to EAF off.

This article comes from Computable.nl (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/5841654). © Jaarbeurs IT Media.