Microsoft's Killer W7 Patch: Breaks Networking, Flags Legit PCs as "Not Genuine"

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Windows 7 admins are calling this week’s Patch Tuesday a disaster: new updates are not only bricking Windows 7 devices with a “Not Genuine” Windows license error, but there’s also a bug blocking administrator access to remote shares on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. “Once again, Microsoft has released patches and updates that have broken parts of Windows.”

While it was prudent to patch quickly, admins discovered the update tripped up network shares over the SMBv2 file-sharing protocol. Born figured the security-only update might dodge the bugs, but he discovered that it caused the same issues. Regarding the "Not Genuine" Windows 7 error, Microsoft confirms that "some users are reporting the KMS Activation error, 'Not Genuine,' 0xc004f200 on Windows 7 devices."
 
And here I told a windows 7 computer at work to restart and install its updates before I left on Friday. Wonder if it is dead....

They really need to find a good balance between rushing important security issues when needed however testing other a little bit more first.
 
I think I'm going to skip this patch
 

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Someone doesn't seem to know the meaning of "brick". *looks at Megalith news post*
 
Hehe things just don't go the way of MS these days :D so much so i had to see if they hired in some Danish brass for the executive hallways, but that don't seem to be it.
But they sure are making a lot of BS these days i can relate to as a Dane.
 
None of this would have happened if people had upgraded to windows 10 like microsoft wanted them to do

8.1 is pretty sweet as far as windows go
 
Hmmm, wonder if this is why my samba share on W7 magically became inaccessible from Ubuntu a few days ago...
 
Pretty ridiculous bug, breaks RDP and also SQL if you run it with local admin account
 
Yet another reason why it makes sense to hold off on updating these days to see what happens in the first week or so. A Win7 Home on one of my systems flashes daily that it has new updates to download since Tuesday.
 
I have a windows 7 machine that randomly says it's not genuine. However, if i check activation it says it's ok. If I go online to resolve it, it says it's ok.
 
My company's poor IT staff is working through this issue on over 900 deployed Win7Enterprise workstations at my plant... kinda funny to watch from the outside, but it was handled pretty quick
 
I guess that's one way to try to inspire folks to upgrade to Windows 10
 
This happened to a client of ours a few days ago. Had to roll back the patch, shares were completely broken for no apparent reason.
 
Well they kinda had to do this so ppl would not go back to windows7 due to the horrible updates patches win10 got recently.
 
motomonkey said:
Why the fuck WOULD it be? that's just silly. trying to make some weird ass conspiracy about MS doing this on purpose, makes them look like they actually know what they are doing!

perfect example of Hanlon's razor.
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Did you miss all he other amoral things they did to get ppl from 7 to 10?
 
g-money said:
For those interested in the details (and more about how to fix) I found this article a little better than the originals linked: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/11/microsoft-explains-the-windows-7-kms-activation-issue/
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One of the fellow techs at my organization came across this article this morning after I introduced him to [H] last week (I was puzzled by this revelation too) and he was able to fix a remote computer which has been affected by this bug for the last few days. Thanks for the link g-money and score 1 for [H]!
 
Thanks Megalith for posting this as I haven't heard of it yet.

g-money said:
For those interested in the details (and more about how to fix) I found this article a little better than the originals linked: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/11/microsoft-explains-the-windows-7-kms-activation-issue/
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Thanks for that link. As an admin at my job we do have one workstation still running 7 since the software on it hasn't been optimized for 10 yet. Nice to know when I get in this morning that if it's down I do have a work around. :)
 
Had this issue last thursday with a client
They share files between two machines.
Latest update killed that.
Removed it and foolishly thought considering the amount of web coverage I've seen about it, that MS would have pulled the update.
Nope...it installed again. Hid it the second time
 
ahhh, got a couple win 7 machines at a client not on their domain that cant share. good to know
 
motomonkey said:
Which has no bearing on a fucked up patch.
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If the debate was if its on purpose, and the argument is that they would not be amoral enough to do so. Then yes it has bearings to show that the amoral value is there.
That you don't think its true is different though
 
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