after apply WU_ESU_Patcher Install November update of server 2008 Datastore.edb size become around 4GB I did try Defragment-DataStore.edb.cmd the size did not change I even try every MODES OF OPERATION of Esentutl but the size still same Checksum: ESENTUTL /k show "122670 pages seen" compressing the file give size only 46mb
Does the same happen if you install Security-only updates? By doing that you could also pinpoint which exact month of update is causing problems.
Just installed all the security only updates manually, one by one, and they all worked, even the 2023-11 patch. Guessing there was some driver conflict when installing the rollup, really weird. Thanks a lot for the tip!
Well there's already been 4 years of ESU updates. I think they will prefer to focus on W10 ESU. However Updates from POSReady 7 will be released until Oct. 2024 and might work for regular W7 and 2008 R2. Maybe ESUBypass will have to be updated to work with it. We will see in February 2024 how it turns out.
It could work with vLite, but it's pretty old and there's really no point. I mean come on, actually using, let alone prepping Vista/7 images for WIM deployment in 2023 is like me putting Windows XP on every system I could get my hands on in 2015-- and it was bad enough back then when a few people still made it work! The best you can do now is build and maintain a reference VM that can be persistently deployed to any remaining physical systems that need it.
December update is here: "2023-12 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5033433)" Any news on whether we'll see a .NET update or not this time around?
I am on LTSC 2021, so I am not concerned about the EOL of Windows 10. I will investigate 11 LTSC when it is released next year in H2 2024 and decide if I will upgrade at that time or wait.
Moin @ All! My December 2023 ESUpdate experience for Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 systems: "Licensing method": KB4528069 & "new" BypassESU-v12 "Installing method": Manual download and installation via Microsoft®Update-Catalog KB5033376 (Cumulative Security Update for IE 11 for Windows Embedded 7 Standard / Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) -> succesfully installed KB5033424 (Security Only Quality Update for Windows Embedded 7 Standard / Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) -> succesfully installed The following additional updates were offered by the Microsoft servers via the Windows Update Search and were also successfully installed: Security Intelligence-Update for Microsoft Security Essentials. @ abbodi1406: Thx for your support! Great job!
I download via the update catalog KB5033433 Windows 2008 R2 via kb5016892 via bypass esu v12 and I don't understand why there are still esu5 and esu6 but hey it works the same