[Late Forum Post] IBM BigFix Patch: Content Modification: Patches for Windows (WIndows 10 Anniversary Update build 1607) published 2016-08-06

Content in the Patches for Windows site has been modified:

New Fixlets:

[Major] 2450944: Some folders or files are unexpectedly deleted on the upstream server after you restart the DFS Replication service in Windows Server 2003 R2, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server 2008 - KB2450944 (ID: 245094406)
[Major] 2450944: Some folders or files are unexpectedly deleted on the upstream server after you restart the DFS Replication service in Windows Server 2003 R2, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server 2008 R2 - KB2450944 (x64) (ID: 245094404)
[Major] 2450944: Some folders or files are unexpectedly deleted on the upstream server after you restart the DFS Replication service in Windows Server 2003 R2, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server 2008 - KB2450944 (x64) (ID: 245094402)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (Japanese) (ID: 110035)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (Japanese) (ID: 110033)
[Major] Windows 10 Education Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (Japanese) (ID: 110031)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110029)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110027)
[Major] Windows 10 Education N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110025)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110023)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110021)
[Major] Windows 10 Education Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (x64) (English (United States)) (ID: 110019)
[Major] Windows 10 Education Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100035)
[Major] Windows 10 Education Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (Japanese) (ID: 100033)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100031)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (Japanese) (ID: 100029)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (Japanese) (ID: 100027)
[Major] Windows 10 Enterprise N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100025)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100023)
[Major] Windows 10 Professional Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100021)
[Major] Windows 10 Education N Version 1607 Available - Windows 10 (English (United States)) (ID: 100019)

Reason for Update:
Fixlets for KB2450944 are available.
Windows 10 Version 1607 is available.

Actions to Take:
None

Published site version:
Patches for Windows, version 2560.

Additional links:
None

Application Engineering Team
IBM BigFix

There’s a related thread where we’re monitoring users’ deployment experiences:

How did your deployment of Windows 10 Anniversary Upgrade version 1607 go?

Hi @Climson - For the ISOs used in the BigFix content for the Windows 10 1607 updates - what ISOs did IBM use? I downloaded from the MS VLSC web site and am getting different hashes for 2 of the 3 ISOs that I checked.

The fixlets are based on ISOs downloaded from MSDN.

Does MS VLSC web site provide any checksum?
MSDN provides Sha1 checksum for each ISO.
Maybe you can compare from the two sites.

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Hi Andy -

VLSC does not provide a checksum but using the fixlet debugger and the proper inspectors, the hashes are different.

I downloaded the installers from MSDN and ran the inspectors and it checks out. Now we know where to grab the ISOs from.

It’s strange that there would be different ISOs but we’ll test and go with what IBM has provided.

Thanks!

@cdh Yes, please go ahead with MSDN.

Do note that the Win10 ISO builds in MSDN are updated every three months or so (you can tell from the name, like “Updated Jul 2016”)

BigFix Patch team will then release a new batch of fixlets based on the updated ISOs and retired the previous batch.

In the most of fixlets ‘Windows 10 XXXXXXXXX Version 1607 Available - Windows 10’ there is an error.

The line 44
appendfile SLEEP 10
needs to be replaced with
appendfile TIMEOUT /T 10 /NOBREAK
or just
appendfile TIMEOUT 10

It’s not critical for applying these fixlets, just for order - there is no such command - ‘SLEEP’ in Windows CMD.

Does this process require the use of the custom repository. When I look at the description of Fixlet ID 1100581, Windows 10 Professional Version 1511 Available - Windows 10 (x64) English - This Fixlet requires downloading the Windows 10 ISO image before deploying the Fixlet. You can use a custom repository to do so.Once this Fixlet completes, restart the target to complete the upgrade process.

However when I look at the action , I do not see the download url as shown below. What am I missing?

Is there a user guide that explains the process?

begin prefetch block add prefetch item name
=en_windows_10_multiple_editions_version_1511_updated_apr_2016_x64_dvd_8705583.iso
sha1=1b247b5b348e78c9bc3afd3c1cbe10cee3d1b9d5 size=4458960896 url={value of
setting “_BESClient_AllowCustomRepoDownloads” of client | “http://MANUAL_BES_CACHING_REQUIRED/”}en_windows_10_multiple_editions_version_1511_updated_apr_2016_x64_dvd_8705583.iso
sha256=c08d0636b52d56110367122b75428d6188c1c7aa7b0cc166172bbfe99c4c3661 end
prefetch block