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Microsoft Releases KB3192403, KB3192404, and KB3192406 Preview Rollups

New update shipped to Windows 7 and 8.1 systems

Oct 19, 2016 09:10 GMT  ·  By
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Starting this month, Microsoft is shipping Windows 7 and 8.1 updates as rollups in two different cycles, one on Patch Tuesday for security fixes and another one on the third Tuesday of each month for non-security fixes, plus a preview of next month’s rollup.

KB3192403, KB3192404, and KB3192406 are the three preview releases this month and they come with improvements and fixes for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012.

What’s important to note is that these updates are just previews and are listed as optional in Windows Update on the aforementioned systems. They are projected to be included in next month’s rollup as recommended update and selected by default, so Microsoft is trying to give IT admins a chance to beta test them before all machines in their networks receive the patches next month.

This month’s previews

KB3192403 is a preview of the monthly quality rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP and addresses an “issue that prevents pushed-printer connections and printer connections from trusted servers from being installed in Point and Print scenarios after installing MS16-087,” as Microsoft explains in the changelog. It also comes with a new root certificate type to support Catalog V2 for Windows 7 Embedded systems, and fixes daylight saving time issues.

KB3192404, on the other hand, is aimed at Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, and fixes issues with shared drives becoming unavailable, memory leaks, printing errors and Office 365 integration with Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2.

And last but not least, KB3192406 is the preview for Windows Server 2012 and only improves Windows Kernel reliability and fixes high CPU load in some specific scenarios.

Although these updates show up on all systems mentioned above, only users willing to install pre-release updates should get them, so have this in mind before anything else. Everyone else should receive these patches next month if no major issue is discovered.