Windows Server update interfering with VMware, Windows 11 • The Register

Microsoft is sorting by way of two points with Home windows Server 2022 that have an effect on VMware digital machines and updates not getting handed on to Home windows 11 units.

Each issues are associated to the KB5022842 safety replace to Home windows Server 2022 rolled out February 14 and can unfold their share of complications to customers.

Microsoft and VMware are each reporting that for some customers who put in the replace on visitor digital machines (VMs) on some variations of ESXi, the working system could not begin up. As one Reg reader who contacted us famous: “It’s going to be a nasty shock for a lot of sysadmins.”

Solely these Home windows Server 2022 VMs which can be enabled with Safe Boot – a software designed to maintain malicious software program from loading when the system begins up – are affected, Microsoft wrote in an advisory.

The affected variations of ESXi are vSphere ESXi 7.0x and vSphere ESXi 6.7 U2/U3, VMware famous in its personal advisory. When the issue arises, directors will see an “picture denied” message of their VMware VM log.

The virtualization software program vendor – which Broadcom is seeking to purchase for about $61 billion – mentioned there is no such thing as a decision to the issue proper now, although it famous that the difficulty would not impression VMs operating on vSphere ESXi 8.0x.

It additionally mentioned that ESXi 6.7 has attain its finish of normal assist.

For now, VMware is recommending organizations replace the ESXi Host the place the affected VM is operating to ESXi 8.0, disable the Safe Boot on the VMs, and never set up the KB5022842 patch on Home windows Server 2022 VMs till the difficulty is fastened.

Uninstalling the patch will not resolve the issue, VMware wrote. Primarily the injury is finished. If the patch has been put in, the one choices are upgrading the ESXi Host and disabling Safe Boot.

These seeking to disable the Safe Boot characteristic ought to first energy off the VM after which right-click the VM, click on Edit Settings after which the VM Choices tab. Underneath Boot Possibility, uncheck the Safe Boot enabled possibility.

Microsoft mentioned that each firms “are investigating this situation and can present extra info when it’s out there.”

Microsoft has one other drawback on its fingers with Home windows 2022. Updates launched on February 14 or later won’t make their manner from some Home windows Server Replace Companies (WSUS) servers to units operating Home windows 11 model 22H2.

“The updates will obtain to the WSUS server however won’t propagate additional to shopper units,” Microsoft warned.

The affected WSUS servers are solely these operating Home windows Server 2022 which have been up to date from Home windows Server 2016 or 2019.

“This situation is brought on by the unintended removing of required Unified Replace Platform (UUP) MIME varieties throughout the improve to Home windows Server 2022 from a earlier model of Home windows Server,” the seller wrote, including that it may impression safety or characteristic updates for the most recent model of Home windows 11.

Microsoft Configuration Supervisor is not affected.

The issue was listed as a “identified situation” on the replace. Microsoft is engaged on a repair, which is able to are available in a future launch.

Till a decision is discovered, Microsoft is recommending that admins add the .msu and .wim MIME varieties that have been inadvertently eliminated by the replace. The corporate outlines the steps here.

Making updates sooner and simpler to put in has been a spotlight of the corporate for the previous couple of years. Most not too long ago Microsoft launched the on-premises UUP, which it says delivers smaller – and thus sooner – uploads of Home windows updates. Nevertheless, that comes with a one-time hefty 10GB obtain that may be a foundational a part of the on-prem UUP launch. ®