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Microsoft ups the ante with fix-fixing patch that leaves some Windows Server 2008 machines unable to boot
The Register ^
| Feb 11, 2020
| Richard Speed
Posted on 02/11/2020 7:18:23 AM PST by dayglored
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This one is mainly for system administrators (like myself) who still have Windows Server 2008 machines gallumphing around in their datacenters. There are more of them than you might think....
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:18:23 AM PST
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:19:15 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Gotta love The Register's article picture (presumably the "needy ex-partner that just won't let go"). Looks like she lives in the upper-right corner of the Hot-Crazy Matrix.
Or maybe it's the other way -- she's the one with the clingy ex-partner. Opinions?
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:22:28 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Par for the course with Microcrap!
To: dayglored
Or maybe it's the other way -- she's the one with the clingy ex-partner. Opinions? I will need more photographic evidence before offering my opinion.
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:26:26 AM PST
by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
To: dayglored
I thought MS said they will quit updating Win7.
I’m still waiting.
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:27:24 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Ban Carbon Dioxide! It's twice as bad as Carbon Monoxide!!!)
To: dayglored
We've also asked if a further fix will be issuedA more interesting question is who will be stupid enough to install it. It keeps getting worse with each irritation, er, iteration. With the next one, when you install it, your firstborn will probably clutch at his throat and keel over dead.
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:38:30 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: VeniVidiVici
They didn’t break all the installs yet.
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posted on
02/11/2020 7:39:11 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: dayglored
Its just a washed up carcass on a stinky beach. No one cares about, or uses these defunct products from that has-been company anymore.
To: dayglored
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, except in this case, if it ain't broke, break it. :^) The W7 Pro machines we use (and as an employee of a pretty large outfit, I've got zero to say about what we use around there) have started to run noticably slower during the past month or so.
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posted on
02/11/2020 8:09:48 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: lefty-lie-spy
>
Its just a washed up carcass on a stinky beach. No one cares about, or uses these defunct products from that has-been company anymore. Alas, that carcass is still in widespread use by all sorts of businesses large and small who can't afford (or are too lazy) to migrate their applications and databases to Server 2016 or 2019, because of the radical differences.
Server 2008 was the "Win7 server"; 2012 was Win8 server; 2016 was Win10 server. 2019 is Win10 server on steriods.
It's not a seamless migration. Lots of things simply don't work, and must be re-written.
"No one cares about [2008]"? Hardly. You'd be amazed and horrified.
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posted on
02/11/2020 8:15:59 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
I have a laptop on which one Windows Update broke the Updater App, and so it stopped updating 2 years ago. How do you fix the Updater App when you need the Updater App to update updates to fix the Updater App?
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posted on
02/11/2020 8:16:57 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
To: SunkenCiv
>
The W7 Pro machines we use ... have started to run noticably slower during the past month or so. You're not alone. Something's going on.
[Dayglored puts on his tinfoil hat...]
You have to wonder if some Win7 Windows Update from months ago included a "timebomb" that would start the disintegration of performance after Jan 14, 2020.
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posted on
02/11/2020 8:18:56 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Of course my first question (beyond “who trusts Microsoft?”) is who would apply patches to their entire farm without patch testing first?
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:04:18 AM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: dayglored
Yeah, I agree, but I was runnin' low on foil. :^) Nothin' sells like planned obsolescence.
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posted on
02/11/2020 9:09:51 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: rockrr
>
Of course my first question (beyond who trusts Microsoft?) is who would apply patches to their entire farm without patch testing first? It depends. If you have 100 servers, it only makes sense to test it on a select few (non-production) first. What about if you have 5 servers and they're all production critical (yeah, that's another, different problem)?
Sure would be nice if one could trust the supplier.
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posted on
02/11/2020 10:28:36 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Turn off automatic updates and only install the bare minimum needed to properly run specific programs/games.
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posted on
02/11/2020 10:38:10 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: dayglored
Still running Win 2008 server?
Irresponsible. The owners of the system, not the admin.
Company ownership must give them an ultimatum. Upgrade to current OS (platform and application/DB) in 90 days or you’re fired.
If you’re at a publicly traded company, it should be part of their quarterly and annual public disclosure.
The company’s business operations are at risk.
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posted on
02/11/2020 10:42:48 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
I don’t have the statistics right at hand, but I wonder if the percentage of Server 2008 still in use is similar to the percentage of the corresponding client (Windows 7) — at around 25%.
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posted on
02/11/2020 10:45:00 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
It has to be less on the server side.
There are a lot of private individuals on Win7 that skew those numbers.
2008 is out of support.
And it’s now, by definition, a security risk to the entire enterprise.
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posted on
02/11/2020 10:53:58 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
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