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March 21, 2017—KB4012218 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)


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This update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of Monthly Rollup KB4012215 (released March 14, 2017). This update also includes these new quality improvements and is a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update. Key changes include:

  • Enabled detection of processor generation and hardware support when PC tries to scan or download updates through Windows Update.
  • Simplified listing of Approved Servers in the Point and Print group policies by allowing wildcards in the server name.
  • Addressed issue that produces corrupt output when using fread() to read data from a pipe. The runtime will sometimes drop the newlines between lines.
  • Addressed issue to update time zone information.
  • Addressed issue with the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service process that crashes on the domain controller when making certain Lightweight Directory Access Protocol requests.
For a complete list of affected files, see KB4012218.

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Keywords: Windows 7 update, Windows Server 2008 update, kb4012218, windows 7 sp1, windows server 2008 r2 sp1

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Article ID : 4016780
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Created on : 8/22/2018
Published on : 8/22/2018
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