Microsoft has patched This broke chunks of Windows and released a fix for Patch Tuesday, causing servers to reboot and the VPN to disconnect.
There was a time when out-of-band updates from Microsoft were considered rare. Not so much these days. After Microsoft recently demonstrated its legendary quality control, the receiving end of the company’s attention is that Windows desktop and Windows Server installations are left with some damage.
KB5010793, KB5010792, KB5010790 and KB5010789 Windows 10 and Windows Server are obsolete.Even Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are beloved KB5010798 and KB5010799, that’s the blast radius of last week’s whoopsie.
A recap of last week’s patch caused various problems for the administrator. Hyper-V dropped Spectre, domain controller experienced unexpected reboot. The possibly misnamed Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) also had issues after an update, preventing some users from accessing volumes.Other users have reported issues with VPN connections on Windows versions from the 2015 LTSB version to Windows 11, and Microsoft is updating its Windows Publishing Health Dashboard.
VPN issues can be resolved by disabling the provider ID (if available) in the server side settings. Or administrators can throw aside the warnings and uninstall the patch, even though some very important security fixes are lurking in it.
As for the nature of the problem, repair Fixes an issue where VMs in Hyper-V won’t boot states an issue with “Virtual Machines (VMs) on servers with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)”.
As for VPNs, the patch addresses “a known issue that could cause IP Security (IPSEC) connections that contain Vendor IDs to fail. VPN connections using Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) or IP Secure Internet Key Exchange (IPSEC IKE) may also be affected.”
Microsoft has had a rough time with the quality of its patches. 2021 Featured Updates those that bore the printer And triggered the blue screen of death. While some may be hoping to turn the page in 2022, the company’s testing approach has remained consistent so far. ®
