Extenuation of Static IP issues on VMware running on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 OS

This Patch Tuesday seems to be miserable for administrators handling Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 running on VM ware

Scenario:

The below scenario was reported by few users who installed these KB's KB4088875 & KB4088878 on VMware.

This is applicable for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 OS, installed on VMware environment only.

For the VMware users, The NIC card is restarted and the pre-configured settings are reset to default settings, hence its disconnected from the network.

In few scenarios, it is also reported that the static IP are getting changed and assigned to random IP.

Therefore the following KB's[KB4088875 & KB4088878] are not recommended for VMwares.

Kindly refer the below link to know more about this juncture :

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/843w0w/patch_tuesday_megathread_20180313/

Solution:

In Desktop Central it has been handled to tackle this scenario by a precheck action to avoid this mishap.

It checks whether the client machine is a VM machine, If so, it returns errorcode : 119 - "The system does not support the command requested"

Also this KBs[KB4088875 & KB4088878] have fixes for Meltdown/Spectre , errorcode 15613 is for incompatible AV - "A Prerequisite for an install could not be satisfied".

Also refer the following link for more details on Meltdown & spectre: https://pitstop.manageengine.com/portal/community/topic/fix-for-meltdown-and-spectre

However this situation is already handled in Desktop Central, so if it is a VM environment then Desktop Central Patch Mgmt would action it accordingly.