Recent Windows Updates and Credentials

Question

Hi I recently applied Windows Updates to my server and all of a sudden most of my applications which have credentials such as DefaultNetworkCredentials or hard-coded username/passwords have stopped working. I am unable to get these functioning... is this a known issue? Any work arounds? Thank you.

Answer 1

Here is your approach:

• figure out what is not working
• figure out what was installed during the update
• figure out which of the updated components caused the problem
• take steps to either roll-back the update or fix your application