New products in SUP Properties

Question

Can someone explain what the new products titled "Microsoft Server operation system-21H2," "Microsoft Server operation system-22H2," "Microsoft Server operation system-23H2," and "Microsoft Server operation system-24H2" are, which I discovered in Software Update Point Component Properties?

Answer 1

For fun, in my lab (everyone should have a lab, right?) I enabled the Microsoft Server operation system-23H2 one to see what came down when I sync'd. What I got in the lab was (for example)

2024-06 Cumulative Update for Microsoft server operating system version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5039236)

2024-04 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Microsoft Server operating system, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5036617)

and older superseded versions of similar

I assume it will be similar updates for 21H2, 22H2, and 24H2

if you look at this link... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-server-version-23h2-update-history-68c851ff-825a-4dbc-857b-51c5aa0ab248 it implies that "23h2" is for Server OS Builds of 26398. Easy enough (I assume) to check if you have that build with 'select build01 from v_r_system group by build01', and see if you have any of those.

Slightly OT:

I have this as a custom report on my reporting site, and every 2-3 months (I should run it every hotfix Tuesday, but I forget), I run it to see if "anything new and fun showed up I should care about that I should enable".

Select

lc.CategoryInstanceName,

lc.CategoryInstanceID,

ci.DateLastModified,

uci.IsSubscribed,

lc.LocaleID

from v_LocalizedCategories lc

join CI_CategoryInstances ci WITH (NOLOCK) on ci.CategoryInstanceID=lc.CategoryInstanceID

join v_UpdateCategoryInstances uci on uci.CategoryInstanceID=lc.CategoryInstanceID

where

ci.CategoryTypeName = 'Product'

and lc.localeID in (9,1033) --Note, these just happen to be the ones this environment needs, pick more or all if you need them all

order by ci.DateLastModified desc

Caveats: it sorts by 'datelatemodified', so If you enable a product, it'll then be at the top of the list. the "False" ones will either be datelastmodified of 'when it magically appeared at all', or 'when a human changed it from checked on to checked off'.

Answer 2

Hi, @Pall Piars

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

It is the different version for windows server 2022, OS build 20348 is version 21H2, OS build 26398 is version 23h2.

You may check the version on Server 2022 with command winver.

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