Microsoft .Internet Framework iv.half dozen.i is available on Windows Update and WSUS

Jan 26th, 2016

Updated (2017): See.Net Framework Releases to larn nigh newer releases.

Nosotros are happy to denote that the .Cyberspace Framework 4.half dozen.i and its linguistic communication packs are at present available on Windows Update (WU) and WSUS for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. An offline installer is available here for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012. Additionally, the .NET Framework 4.vi.1 is included in the Windows 10 November Update for Windows ten computers.

This update is available in the Windows Update applet within the Control Console. You may need to use the Check for updates characteristic from within the Windows Update applet to get the release to testify up.

You tin acquire more than about .Net Framework 4.6.i here. Changes shipping in this release are covered in the .NET 4.vi.1 release proclamation blogpost.

How is this release made available?

Automatic Updates

To get-go with, .Cyberspace Framework 4.half-dozen.1 is offered as an Optional update which means you lot would need to apply the Bank check for updates characteristic to become .Net Framework 4.6.1.

In a few weeks, .Internet 4.6.one will exist made available as a Recommended update which means that users with Automatic Updates (AU) enabled (which is most users) will get the release automatically. Users that have modified their AU settings to notify them when updates are available or downloaded volition run across a notification in their system tray nigh this update.

As a Recommended update, the deployment will be rolled out to various geographies globally over a few weeks. And so, if y'all practice not get the update offered on the kickoff day and exercise not want to wait until the update is offered, yous can use the Check for updates feature, as described above.

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Catalog

WSUS administrators will run into this update in their WSUS admin console. The update is also available in the MU catalog for download and deployment.

When you synchronize your WSUS server with Microsoft Update server (or use the Microsoft Update Catalog site for importing updates), yous will see that at that place are two updates for .Net Framework 4.6.1 published for each platform. The difference in the updates is scoped to the different applicability logic for targeting dissimilar computers. Delight read the details included in the description of the respective update to get more information. We recommend that you lot import both the updates if you plan to deploy .Internet Framework four.half dozen.one in your surroundings.

  • I of the .Net Framework 4.6.i updates will install only on computers that accept an earlier version such as .NET iv, 4.v, 4.5.1, or 4.5.2 installed.
  • The other .Cyberspace Framework 4.6.1 update volition install on those computers that either take .Cyberspace 4.6 installed or no .Cyberspace Framework installed on supported operating systems.

WU Applicability information

The .NET Framework 4.six.1 Language Packs is available via WU and WSUS. This is to support the upgrade of previous linguistic communication packs for .Net Framework four, iv.5, 4.v.1, four.5.two, four.half-dozen. The linguistic communication packs are also supported for those computers that either take the localized version of the base operating system or accept one or more Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packs installed. Further details on linguistic communication packs for .NET four.6.1 for Windows vii SP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are covered in KB3102433 and KB3102521 respectively.

Computers that do non accept .Cyberspace Framework 4.5.2 or a higher version installed, are offered both .NET Framework 4.five.2 and .NET Framework 4.half dozen.1. You accept an option to choose the .Cyberspace Framework version yous demand. Here's how the offering matrix looks like depending on the .NET Framework version you have installed on your machine.

.NET Framework product installed on your machine .NET Framework 4.five.2 Offered? .NET Framework 4.6.i Offered?
No .Internet Framework or .NET 3.5 only

a

a

.NET 4 / four.v / 4.5.1

a

a

.Net Framework 4.5.2

r

a

.Cyberspace Framework four.6

r

a

.NET Framework 4.half dozen.1 or afterward

r

r

Blocking the automatic deployment of .Cyberspace Framework 4.six.1

Enterprises may have client machines that connect directly to the public Windows Update servers rather than to an internal WSUS server. In such cases, an administrator may have a need to prevent the .Net Framework four.six.ane from existence deployed to these customer machines in order to allow testing of internal applications to exist completed before deployment.

In such scenarios, administrators can deploy a registry cardinal to machines in gild to prevent the .Internet Framework 4.vi.1 from being offered to those machines. More information about how to use this blocker registry central can exist plant in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

KB3133990:  How to temporarily block the installation of the .Internet Framework 4.6.1 and its respective language packs

Developing using .Net Framework 4.6.1 and Visual Studio 2013

Developers using Visual Studio 2013 can build applications targeting the .Net Framework 4.6.1 by installing the .NET Framework 4.6.1 Programmer Pack. The developer pack is a single package that installs .NET Framework 4.vi.1 likewise as the .Internet Framework 4.half-dozen.one Targeting Pack and the .Internet 4.half dozen.i SDK.