Problem with KB4088875 (Update Rollup)

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Problem with KB4088875 (Update Rollup)

Post by jguengerich » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:22 am

This isn't strictly about AbleCommerce, but it may affect you if you are running your AbleCommerce web site on a virtual server. Applying KB4088875 (2018-03 Security Monthly Quality Rollup...) may replace the virtual NIC with a default one, which, depending on your configuration, may cause it to lose network connectivity. Reddit thread here (language warning): https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comme ... d_vmxnet3/ - sounds like whether or not a system is affected depends on several things such as what other patches may have already been applied.

Microsoft's fix from a similar problem 2 years ago (running a script) worked for me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... er-2008-r2

This happened on my test web server, and this is why I apply windows updates to my test servers first!
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Re: Problem with KB4088875 (Update Rollup)

Post by Katie » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:35 am

Hi Jay,

Good to know. Thanks for posting this. I will alert our IT.

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Re: Problem with KB4088875 (Update Rollup)

Post by jguengerich » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:54 am

More info: apparently only affects VMWare Virtual Servers running Windows Server 2008 (perhaps only R2) or Windows 7.
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