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3 posts tagged #hotpatch.
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Analysis · May 28, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The print stack regresses on schedule
KB5087424 broke 32-bit printing on Windows Server 2022 hotpatch fleets. It's the latest data point in a five-year arc of print-stack regressions that track Microsoft's deliberate retirement of the legacy spooler architecture.
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Analysis · May 27, 2026 · Colten Anderson
Hotpatch was supposed to be the smoother path
KB5087424 broke 32-bit printing on Windows Server 2022, and the no-reboot delivery model that was supposed to reduce friction has no fix path that doesn't surrender the security content.
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Analysis · May 1, 2026 · Colten Anderson
Hotpatch goes default in Autopatch. You have 10 days.
Microsoft flips hotpatch on by default for all Autopatch tenants May 11. If you haven't inventoried your fleet against the requirements, you're about to get a split patching model you didn't plan for.