Microsoft is releasing an out of band update that fixes issues caused by Windows Update’s release last week during Patch Tuesday.
The January update for Windows brought some issues, causing some virtual private networks to stop working and domain controllers to reboot unexpectedly. The Windows Server 2012 got stuck in a bootloop and meanwhile some hard drives were rendered useless. IT admins were forced to roll back to a previous version of Windows, leaving many servers suddenly partially unprotected.
Update is not the best
The update that Microsoft is now releasing is not a panacea. The admins must first install the Windows Update that causes problems. And that is cause for concern, because the aforementioned problems can still occur. In addition, they may lose access to hard drives formatted as ReFS (Resilient File System).
Before the updates can be installed, admins must first migrate the data to fixed drives. Had Microsoft not addressed this issue earlier, the IT admins might have thought that the disks would be broken. As a result, they would be formatted to NTFS, which would cause them to lose all data.
The out of band update (also known as oob update, an update that appears alongside regular updates) is now available to download for admins with access to Microsoft’s update catalog. They can be downloaded from Windows Server Update Services. In addition, some fixes are now available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 as an optional update.
