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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."
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."