Windows 10 cumulative update KB 3176934 breaks PowerShell

InfoWorld ^ | Aug 24, 2016 | Woody Leonhard

[Dalberg-Acton]

Microsoft's update for version 1607 doesn't fix two widespread problems with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and it breaks PowerShell DSC operations

Yesterday afternoon, Microsoft released KB 3176934 for those PCs running Windows 10 Anniversary Update. It's the fifth cumulative update for version 1607 (three were released before the product rolled out on Aug. 2) and brings the build number up to 14393.82. You can see the long list of official changes -- primarily bug fixes -- on the Windows 10 update history page.

Anniversary Update customers also received an update to the "servicing stack" -- the subsystem within Windows 10 that handles updates -- in KB 3176936.

[From The Deer Stand]

My computer automatically updated to Windows 10 and their new browser Edge which will not open. As a result I have to transfer every link to Outlook Express. Frustrating that Microsoft forces 10 on me with a defective browser that they don’t fix.

[GingisK]

Bloatware without purpose. Its authors no longer know how it works.

[daniel1212]

Good luck, MS. Had updates turned off for over two years now. Even that software that supposedly removes 10 nag notices told me it would not work unless I installed a newer "update" version.

I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such.

[martin_fierro]

Ugh. My work is making me upgrade from 8.1 to 10.

Others who’ve already upgraded tell me it’s a lengthy, complicated process.

Not looking forward to this.

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[dayglored]

As Mark Twain noted, regarding a dog walking upright on its hind legs: “it matters not whether it does it well. The amazing thing is that it can do it at all. “

In-place major OS upgrades are like that.

[catnipman]

“I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such. “

folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs.

[dayglored]

From The Register:

To undo the update, uninstall it by running the following in PowerShell:

wusa /uninstall /kb:3176934

[Dalberg-Acton]

[dayglored]

LOL! I am SO stealing that...

[daniel1212]

folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs.

Well, there is this,Download Destroy Windows 10 Spying - MajorGeeks though i do not try it, and do not want to do all that this does myself:

[catnipman]

that tool is a host files address blocker and if MS has hard-coded IP addresses into their spyware, then all aspects of DNS resolution are bypassed,including the hosts file.

In fact, the first use comment is:

“It’s useful to remove apps and to do some tweaks, but doesn’t works with hosts blocking, because some domains are hardcoded in the ..\system32\dnsapi.dll”

[daniel1212]

that tool is a host files address blocker and if MS has hard-coded IP addresses into their spyware, then all aspects of DNS resolution are bypassed,including the hosts file. In fact, the first use comment is: “It’s useful to remove apps and to do some tweaks, but doesn’t works with hosts blocking, because some domains are hardcoded in the ..\system32\dnsapi.dll”

I did not see that although I did read about the hard coding. Blocking the known list of Microsoft servers using the appropriate rules of Windows Firewall MS is another method discussed here. : "We just HAVE to talk."

[catnipman]

theoretically using outbound firewall rules should block specified IP addresses used by microsoft spyware, but testing would be required to make sure that microsoft hasn’t built in a backdoor for their own usage that bypasses THAT checking. Actually, if this latter was actually the case, I would think that would be good grounds for a class action lawsuit and/or have the EU regulating bodies take an extremely dim view of that situation.

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks.

I got the update on Tuesday, and was okay. Then I got an update last night that killed Edge, System, and who knows what else.

I followed your link and uninstalled and now things seem to be fine.

-PJ

[daniel1212]

theoretically using outbound firewall rules should block specified IP addresses used by microsoft spyware, but testing would be required to make sure that microsoft hasn’t built in a backdoor for their own usage that bypasses THAT checking. Actually, if this latter was ac

More likely they will just change addresses.

[catnipman]

“More likely they will just change addresses.”

Yup. Probably with every update if they feel like it.