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August 2016 update rollup for Windows 7 (KB3179573)

posted 8 years ago by alpha128
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According to the documentation:

This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:
•Improved performance on specific networks that have a high-bandwidth and low latency.
•Addressed issue with users encountering a bugcheck, when trying to access a domain DFS namespace (for example, \\contoso.com\SYSVOL) on a computer that is configured to require mutual authentication (by using the UNC Hardened Access feature).

This problem may occur if the selected domain controller has security update KB3161561 installed, and if the SmbServerNameHardeningLevel registry entry is configured to a non-zero value on the domain controller.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22801/windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-update-history

So it seems like something that would not be useful to the average home user.

Have any of you installed this update? If so, any issues afterwards?

[–] alpha128 8 years ago

I decided I'd better get current before the next Patch Tuesday and felt that sufficient time had elapsed. So I installed this update. So far so good.