Fix for Patch Manager Plus server port in use issue

Hello everyone,

Greetings from Endpoint management technical support team.

A recently released windows patch has some issues which apparently shows ports as occupied when the application server releases its port for a restart. You'll find the known issue note on all the problematic updates as shown below.

Known issues in this update

Restarting the SQL Service may fail occasionally with the error, “Tcp port is already in use”.

This issue is resolved in KB4345459.

This has also affected the Desktop Central server since most of the customers would be restarting the server after Hotfix installation. A quick restart of the computer would fix it

temporarity

. However, the permanent way is to deploy the fixed patches released by Microsoft.

Microsoft has already released fixes to handle such scenarios. Here are the newly released updates.

OS	Problematic Update	Fixed In
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1	4338823	This issue is resolved in KB4345459 .
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1	4338818	This issue is resolved in KB4338821 .
Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2	4338824	This issue is resolved in KB4345424 .
Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2	4338815	This issue is resolved in KB4338831 .
Windows Server 2012	4338820	This issue is resolved in KB4345425 .
Windows Server 2012	4338830	This issue is resolved in KB4338816.
Windows 10	4338829	This issue is resolved in KB4345455 .
Windows 10 Version 1607 Windows Server 2016	4338814	This issue is resolved in KB4345418 .
Windows 10 Version 1703	4338826	This issue is resolved in KB4345419 .
Windows 10, version 1709	4338825	This issue is resolved in KB4345420 .
Windows 10, version 1803	4338819	This issue is resolved in KB4345421 .