Surprisingly, I hadn't seen anything posted on here about updates yesterday, and I was too in the thick of it to add anything just yet. I realize most are not bleeding edge, so just a heads-up that you may have some issues-hopefully this helps someone else and MS can sort it.
Of the servers updated yesterday: all but one of our WS12R2 servers halted with a BSOD on restart: Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area Win32k.sys Had to hard shut-down, and they all recovered (thankfully). They all think the updates installed fine. All of the WS12 (non-R2) servers appeared to take an extremely long time, and after they came back, I found they wanted the same updates installed again. Turns out they are rolling back and not installing any of them. After things calmed down and stabalized, I scoured around online a bit and didn't see anything, but it was early. Then I looked at the one WS12R2 server that hadn't crashed with a BSOD, and realized it's a non-domain machine that went straight out to MS for updates. Our network admin had patched that one, and had not chosen to install the optional (not security) update KB2975719, which is a decent sized rollup for 2012R2. Based on that, I also looked at the 2012 non-R2 servers and noticed KB2975331, a similar non-security update rollup for 2012. I went forward testing on a few more systems, and found that I can install successfully if I first install all of the other updates except for either KB2975719 or KB2975331, restart, and then install the that rollup and restart again. That seems to avoid the BSOD and the rollback, and has worked today for all but one of my 2012 non-R2 servers (I'm still trying to figure out why just the rollup won't install on this last one-could be something else). Seems like they may have a logic issue in that these rollup updates should not be installed along with other updates (like when updating to a new version of IE), but they don't force it to do so. There are also some postings coming out now about issues with Win7, so buyer beware: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/08/14/1713227/microsoft-black-tuesday-patches-bring-blue-screens-of-death -Bonnie
