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3 Update 1611 for Cloud Platform System (CPS) Standard
Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
1 Overview of the Patch and Update framework ......................................................................................................... 5
1.1 How to check which update package is installed .............................................................................................. 6
1.2 When to run the update package....................................................................................................................... 6
2 1611 Patch and Update Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Prepare the patching environment .................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Step 1: Prepare user account for patching ........................................................................................................ 7
2.3 Step 2: Ensure that Group Policy does not block the mounting of USB virtual disks ........................................ 7
2.4 Step 3: Extract the Patch and Update package ................................................................................................. 7
2.5 Step 4: Copy the manifest file to the SMA server .............................................................................................. 8
2.6 Step 5: Ensure that LaJollaDeploymentService is not running in the background .................................. 8
2.7 Step 6: Install the VMM Hyper-V Network Virtualization policy hotfix ............................................................... 8
2.8 Step 7: Clean up the WSUS server ................................................................................................................... 9
3 1611 Patch and Update Process ............................................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Step 1: Run the 1611 P&U update package PUDellEMC ............................................................................... 11
3.2 Step 2: Run the 1611 P&U update package Microsoft P0 .............................................................................. 14
3.3 Step 3: Run the 1611 P&U update package Microsoft P1 .............................................................................. 18
3.4 Run an optional compliance scan .................................................................................................................... 21
4 Known Issues ............................................................................................................................................................ 22
4.1 Issue: PURunstatus.json file reports failed state after console reboot ...................................................... 22
4.2 Patch and Update framework re-run is required after a subsystem encounters errors ................................... 22
5 Microsoft payload for Update P0 package ................................................................................................................ 23
5.1 Configuration changes from previous updates ................................................................................................ 23
5.2 Updates for Windows Server 2012 R2, from previous updates ...................................................................... 24
6 Microsoft payload for Update P1 package ................................................................................................................ 25
6.1 New updates for Windows Server 2012 R2 ..................................................................................................... 25
6.2 Updates for SQL Server 2014 SP1.................................................................................................................. 25
6.3 System Center and Windows Azure Pack updates, from previous updates ................................................... 25
6.4 Updates for Windows Server 2012 R2, from previous updates ...................................................................... 26
6.5 Troubleshooting the P&U process ................................................................................................................... 47
7 DELL payload for Update 1611 ................................................................................................................................. 51