List of resources to find Hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012 R2

When you use the more advanced features of Windows and System Center components, you tend to run into issues and undocumented features once in a while. Here are a couple of useful links to websites which lists the recommended hotfixes that should be installed before contacting Microsoft support. And I’m usually deploying them in our own live environment as soon as they are released, to hopefully not run into the issues or sometimes find out potential problems with the fixes before recommending them to our customers.

Updated: 2015-08-23 with additional collections (DFS).

Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012 R2-based failover clusters
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2920151

List of currently available hotfixes for the File Services technologies in Windows Server 2012 and in Windows Server 2012 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2899011

Recommended hotfixes, updates, and known solutions for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) environments
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2974503

Updates for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt126278.aspx

Available Updates for Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2933664

Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess and Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2883952

Hyper-V: Update List for Windows Server 2012 R2 – kept up to date by the community (MVPs mostly).
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20885.hyper-v-update-list-for-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx?PageIndex=2

List of Public Microsoft Support Knowledge Base (KB) Articles for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22074.list-of-public-microsoft-support-knowledge-base-kb-articles-for-system-center-2012-r2-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2012-r2.aspx

List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2951262/en-us?sd=rss&spid=17383

Remember that you can import Hotfixes directly into WSUS and deploy them that way, just like any other update.

And this is a RSS Feed that lists the Latest KB Articles for Windows Server 2012 R2
https://support2.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=17383
I’ve got the RSS feed imported into Outlook, so I’ll easily see when there is a new one and will hopefully remember the issue when/if I run into it in the future.

 

Scale Out File Server – Latest Hotfixes of June 4, 2015

When I had contact with Microsoft Premier Support about a SOFS (Scale Out File Server) problem they provided me with this list of hotfixes, to get all components up to the latest version.

Ensure the SOFS nodes are updated with *ALL* the Cluster recommended updates:

Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012 R2-based failover clusters  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2920151

Plus 4 additional ones below:
3023894                Cluster fixes for deadlock and resource time-out issues in Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 1  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3023894/EN-US

3027115                Custom values for various MPIO timers in Windows Server 2012 R2 may not be honored  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3027115/EN-US

3022333                Hotfix to avoid a deadlock situation on a CSV file system volume on Windows Server 2012 R2  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3022333/EN-US

2970653     A SQL Server that is running in a Hyper-V virtual machine takes a long time to restore a database to a dynamic VHD  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970653/EN-US

All theses hotfixes can be imported to WSUS via Microsoft Update for easy distribution.
In addition to SOFS, I’ve also deployed all the cluster hotfixes to my Hyper-V Clusters.