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Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
1 Overview of the Patch and Update framework ......................................................................................................... 5
1.1 New functionality ................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.2 Additional update information ............................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 How to check which update package is installed .............................................................................................. 6
1.4 When to run the update package....................................................................................................................... 7
2 1703b Patch and Update Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Prepare the patching environment .................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Step 1: Prepare user account for patching ........................................................................................................ 8
2.3 Step 2: Ensure that Group Policy does not block the mounting of USB virtual disks ........................................ 8
2.4 Step 3: Extract the Patch and Update package ................................................................................................. 8
2.5 Step 4: Ensure that LaJollaDeploymentService is not running in the background on the Console VM .. 9
2.6 Step 5: Clean up the WSUS server ................................................................................................................... 9
2.7 Step 6 (Optional): Exclude external SOFS storage clusters from P&U ............................................................. 9
3 1703b Patch and Update Process ............................................................................................................................. 11
3.1 Step 1: Run the 1703b DellEMC P&U package ............................................................................................. 11
3.2 Step 2: Run the 1703b Microsoft P&U package ............................................................................................. 14
3.3 Run an optional compliance scan .................................................................................................................... 18
4 Known Issues ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
4.1 Patch and Update framework re-run is required after a subsystem encounters errors ................................... 19
5 Microsoft payload for Update 1703b ......................................................................................................................... 20
5.1 Updates for Windows Server 2012 R2 ............................................................................................................ 20
5.2 Updates for Windows Server 2014 .................................................................................................................. 20
5.3 Updates for Windows Azure Pack ................................................................................................................... 20
5.4 Updates for Windows Azure Site Recovery ..................................................................................................... 21
5.5 Updates for System Center 2012 R2—Data Protection Manager ................................................................... 21
5.6 Updates for System Center 2012 R2—Operations Manager .......................................................................... 21
5.7 Updates for System Center 2012 R2—Virtual Machine Manager ................................................................... 21
5.8 Other Microsoft updates (from previous updates) ........................................................................................... 22
5.9 Troubleshooting the P&U process ................................................................................................................... 24
6 Dell EMC Payload for Update 1703b ........................................................................................................................ 26