This document describes how to install Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.5 on Windows Server® 2012 R2. IIS is the Web server role in Windows Server 2012 R2. The Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system has all the IIS features needed to support the hosting of Web content in production environments. Martin Hinshelwood - naked Agility Ltd. About naked Agility Limited & Martin Hinshelwood. With the release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 2 I wanted to make sure that all of my demo machines are up to date. If you download the update from MSDN you get a zip archive called “mu_windows_8.1_windows_server_2012r2_windows.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Patch (KB4336999) Hello, I met some problem when I use the MBSA (offline catalog) to search for updates on Windows Server 2012 R2. My server has installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Isolated) but MBSA suggests to install KB4336999. UPDATE September 2nd: On August 15th, as soon as we became aware of a small number of customers experiencing problems with the August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2, we immediately investigated and pulled the problematic update making it unavailable to download.
Pre-download Windows Update Package on Windows Server 2012 R2. When configured to automatically check for and download updates, Windows Update will search for available updates every 17.6 to 22 hours. Problems with Windows Update on Server 2012 R2. Hot Network Questions. Hello, I met some problem when I use the MBSA (offline catalog) to search for updates on Windows Server 2012 R2. My server has installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Isolated) but MBSA suggests to install KB4336999 (Security Update for the remote code execution vulnerability in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3).
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I have multiple Windows Server 2012 R2 running on Azure (IaaS VM's).We perform monthly maintenances on these servers via Ansible, this includes Windows updates (recommended and critical updates).
This works for 90+% of our servers, but some servers consistently claim they never have anything to download/install:
Updates are configured to be manual (so that we can orchestrate updates download and reboots)
other servers, running the same software versions and having the same config do get updates
We performed update cache cleanup (removed C:WindowsSoftwareDistribution content and restarted Windows Update service), problem remains.
Any idea on how to get these recommended updates downloaded ?
EDIT -- Looks like it was an Azure issue, I contacted support, they checked and managed to update one of the failing server ... and now all the servers are getting updates:
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Are you using your own WSUS server, or just the public Windows Update server?
In April of 2014 this non-sec, monthly rollup was released. It is a per-requisite for any future sec updates to be applied.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
All future security and non-security updates for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 require this update to be installed.
It was kind of botched, and created other problems... See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2959977
Some computers that have the Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Update (KB 2919355) installed stop scanning...
Depending on the release date of your 2012 R2 install media, 2919335 may or may not be present. There are some DISM command to add it to older media, I think it was incorporated into media released after April 2014.
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With the release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 2 I wanted to make sure that all of my demo machines are up to date. I have a Domain Controller and a TFS server that are separate boxes but which are both running Windows Server 2012 R2.
The new update became available yesterday for MSDN subscribers and will be generally available next Tuesday (8th April 2014). I have already completed these updates on my Surface 2 Pro and Surface 2, both of which were running Windows 8.1. Today I want to concentrate on getting all of my demo boxes up to snuff as I have some demos & presentations next week.
Updating these boxes should be trivial, and you know that I like to make sure that I have documentation so here we go. If you download the update from MSDN you get a zip archive called “mu_windows_8.1_windows_server_2012r2_windows_embedded_8.1industry_update_x64_4046913” that contains 6 Updates that can be used on Windows Server as well as Windows. There is a separate update for Windows ARM based architectures. It is recommended to install them in the following order:
KB2919442
KB2919355
KB2932046
KB2937592
KB2938439
KB2949621
Windows Server 2012 R2 Meltdown Patch Download
Although KB2919355 contains the real meat at over 700mb and with most of the other updates are described as ‘feature updates’ you may or may not need to install KB2919442. KB2919355 can take a while to install and on my Surface 2 Pro it took around 30 minutes. On my Domain Controller only around 20 minutes.
Figure: More than one update needs to be applied
Although all of my Windows 8.1 systems already had KB2919442 installed I did need it run it on all of my Windows Servers. You should run each update in the order listed above.
Figure: Each update can take some time to complete
Each update takes various lengths of time to complete and I did notice that the times were pretty consistent with the physical size of the update. It’s a little annoying, and time consuming, to have to run each update manually and there really should be an installer for this. However it may not be worth It for the team to take the time when there updates will be going out to general release over Windows Update next Tuesday.
Figure: If asked to restart then ignore
All of the updates (except KB2919442) requested a restart at the end of each install. I ignored this and relied on the update to decide if the pending restart required to be actioned before proceeding. All of the updates installed in one go with no required reboots in between. That has been true on all of my systems, Windows 8.1 (x64), Windows 8.1 (ARM), and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Figure: Final reboot can take some time
After you have completed all of the updates restart your server and wait for a while… it may reboot a couple of times, however eventually it will be back. Took my VM’s around 3-5 minutes to reboot and configure the updates…
Figure: Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 1
Not only did all of the updates install with no issues, all of the machines came back up and all services (those I changes anyway) are functional. Now that I have my Domain Controller and Team Foundation Server upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 1 I can continue to updating TFS to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 which was also released yesterday.
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