{"id":4331,"date":"2019-10-27T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2019-10-27T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:08:31","slug":"server-2008-r2-servers-keep-failing-to-install-windows-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/server-2008-r2-servers-keep-failing-to-install-windows-updates","title":{"rendered":"Server 2008 R2 servers keep failing to install Windows Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Microsoft changed the signing of update packages for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 devices on the August 2019 Patch Day for the first time. The company signs packages only with SHA-2 since August 2019; it signed them with SHA-1 and SHA-2 previously but decided to drop SHA-1 because of known weaknesses.<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">To sort out this issue, install the following patches in order (ideally reboot after installing each) and then patch your servers successfully:<\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4490628\/servicing-stack-update-for-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4490628\/servicing-stack-update-for-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2<\/a><\/p><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4474419\/sha-2-code-signing-support-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4474419\/sha-2-code-signing-support-update<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft changed the signing of update packages for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 devices on the August 2019 Patch Day for the first time. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}