I've just discovered an update rollup for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012R2. It's kb3000850 released last November. The reason I missed it then was because WSUS lists it as an Update, not an Update Rollup. I have my Update View for 8.1 set to Security, Critical
and Update Rollups, not general updates.
Why is this not listed as a Rollup? If it had shown up at the correct time I could have included it in my tablet rollout. As it is I might swamp the wireless connections of the tablets with such a huge update, so I'm reluctant to do it.
I took a quick look at the "monthly" 8.1 "updates", and other than this November 2014 release, they seem to be "Critical" and not "Rollup" at all. At a guess, you've been seeing these in your view, not because you
have selected "Update Rollup", but because you have selected "Critical".
So, in a way, this was always going to happen to you at some time, because there's no guarantee that there was always going to be a "Critical" aspect to the update classification.
MSFT are rather vague/ambiguous about their use of the term "Rollup" and also "Cumulative" across different products (e.g. Windows vs. Office).
[and as for Vivian's reply regarding "Service Pack is for updating new features", that's just weird - SPs for Windows don't do that, excepting XPSP2, which was an extra-special case..]
Don
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