Quite a few bugs have additionally been fastened, together with one by which Home windows Native Administrator Password Resolution’s Submit Authentication Actions (PAAs) didn’t happen on the finish of the grace interval. As an alternative, they occurred at restart.
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KB5036892 (OS Builds 19044.4291 and 19045.4291)
Launch date: April 9, 2024
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and April 2024 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this construct, together with one by which Copilot in Home windows is just not presently supported when your taskbar is situated vertically on the fitting or left of your display.
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KB5035941 (OS Construct 19045.4239) Preview
Launch date: March 26, 2024
On this construct, Home windows Hiya for Enterprise admins can now use cellular machine administration to show off the immediate that seems when customers check in to an Entra-joined machine. To do it, activate the “DisablePostLogonProvisioning” coverage setting. After a consumer indicators in, provisioning is off for Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 units.
The replace additionally replace improves the Distant Desktop Session Host. Now you can arrange its “clipboard redirection” coverage to work in a single course from the native laptop to the distant laptop. You may as well reverse that order.
Quite a few bugs have additionally been fastened, together with one by which a community useful resource couldn’t be accessed from a Distant Desktop session when the Distant Credential Guard function was turned on, and one other that affected the time service, by which the Home windows Settings app didn’t match what IT admins configured utilizing MDM or a Group Coverage Object.
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KB5035845 (OS Builds 19044.4170 and 19045.4170)
Launch date: March 12, 2024
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and March 2024 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this construct, together with one by which Copilot in Home windows is just not presently supported when your taskbar is situated vertically on the fitting or left of your display.
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KB5034843 (OS Construct 19045.4123) Preview
Launch date: February 29, 2024
On this replace, utilizing Home windows share, now you can instantly share URLs to apps like WhatsApp, Gmail, Fb, and LinkedIn. Sharing to X (previously Twitter) is coming quickly.
The replace additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which Azure Digital Desktop digital machines restarted randomly due to an entry violation in lsass.exe, and one other in Distant Desktop Internet Authentication by which you may not have been in a position to hook up with sovereign cloud endpoints.
There are two identified points on this construct, together with one by which Home windows units utilizing a couple of monitor may expertise points with desktop icons shifting unexpectedly between screens or different icon alignment points when trying to make use of Copilot in Home windows. Within the second situation, Copilot in Home windows is just not supported when your taskbar is situated vertically on the fitting or left of your display.
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KB5034763 (OS Builds 19044.4046 and 19045.4046)
Launch date: February 13, 2023
This construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one by which explorer.exe stopped responding once you restarted or shut down a PC that had a controller accent connected to it.
It additionally has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and February 2024 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this construct, together with one by which Copilot in Home windows (in preview) is just not presently supported when your taskbar is situated vertically on the fitting or left of your display.
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KB5034203 (OS Construct 19045.3996) Preview
Launch date: January 23, 2024
The replace fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which affected BitLocker data-only encryption. A cellular machine administration (MDM) service, reminiscent of Microsoft Intune, may not get the fitting information once you use the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node.
It additionally fastened a bug that affected Group Coverage Folder Redirection in a multi-forest deployment. The problem stopped you from selecting a bunch account from the goal area. And it addresses a problem that brought about some single-function printers to be put in as scanners.
There are two identified points on this construct, together with one by which Home windows units utilizing a couple of monitor may expertise points with desktop icons shifting unexpectedly between screens or different icon alignment points when trying to make use of Copilot in Home windows. Within the second situation, Copilot in Home windows is just not supported when your taskbar is situated vertically on the fitting or left of your display.
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KB5034122 (OS Builds 19044.3930 and 19045.3930)
Launch date: January 9, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and January 2024 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, affecting ID admins, by which utilizing the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node in cellular machine administration apps may incorrectly present a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting for some units in your atmosphere. To mitigate the difficulty in Microsoft Intune, you possibly can set the “Implement drive encryption kind on working system drives” or “Implement drive encryption on fastened drives” insurance policies to not configured.
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KB5032189 (OS Builds 19044.3693 and 19045.3693)
Launch date: December 12, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and December 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, which impacts ID admins, by which utilizing the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node in MDM apps may incorrectly present a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting for some units in your atmosphere. To mitigate the difficulty in Intune, you possibly can set the “Implement drive encryption kind on working system drives” or “Implement drive encryption on fastened drives” insurance policies to not configured.
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Home windows 10 22H2 KB5032278 (OS Construct 19045.3758) Preview
Launch date: November 30, 2023
The replace provides the Copilot in Home windows (in preview) button to the fitting facet of the taskbar. This solely applies to units that run House or Professional editions (non-managed enterprise units). When you choose it, the AI-powered Copilot in Home windows seems on the proper in your display. It won’t overlap with desktop content material or block open app home windows. The replace additionally provides Home windows Replace opt-in notifications to the display once you check in.
The replace additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which affected non-admin processes. It additionally fixes a leak in risky notifications, which could have stopped you from signing into your laptop.
There’s one identified situation on this construct that applies to IT admins, by which utilizing the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node in cellular machine administration (MDM) apps may incorrectly present a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting for some units in your atmosphere.
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KB5032189 (OS Builds 19044.3693 and 19045.3693)
Launch date: November 14, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and November 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this construct that impacts ID admins, by which utilizing the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node in MDM apps may incorrectly present a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting for some units in your atmosphere. To mitigate the difficulty in Microsoft Intune, you possibly can set the “Implement drive encryption kind on working system drives” or “Implement drive encryption on fastened drives” insurance policies to not configured.
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KB5031445 (OS Construct 19045.3636) Preview
Launch date: October 26, 2023
The replace fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which touchscreens didn’t work correctly once you used a couple of show, and one other by which there was a reminiscence leak in ctfmon.exe.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, which applies to IT admins, by which utilizing the FixedDrivesEncryptionType or SystemDrivesEncryptionType coverage settings within the BitLocker configuration service supplier (CSP) node in cellular machine administration (MDM) apps may incorrectly present a 65000 error within the “Require Machine Encryption” setting for some units in your atmosphere.
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KB5031356 (OS Builds 19044.3570 and 19045.3570)
Launch date: October 10, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and October 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5030300 (OS Construct 19045.3516) Preview
Launch date: September 26, 2023
This replace brings again a search field design for accessing apps, recordsdata, settings, and extra from Home windows and the net. When you have a high, backside, common, or small icons taskbar, the search field seems.
The construct additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which Microsoft Defender stopped some USB printers from printing, and one other by which in Home windows Defender Utility Management (WDAC) AppID Tagging insurance policies might have vastly elevated machine startup time.
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KB5030211 (OS Builds 19044.3448 and 19045.3448)
Launch date: September 12, 2023
This construct fixes a bug that affected authentication by which utilizing a wise card to affix or rejoin a pc to an Lively Listing area might have failed.
The construct additionally has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and September 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5029331 (OS Construct 19045.3393) Preview
Launch date: August 22, 2023
This replace improves how Home windows detects your location to assist in giving you higher climate, information, and site visitors data. It additionally expands the rollout of notification badging for Microsoft accounts on the Begin menu, which supplies you fast entry to vital account-related notifications. As well as, it provides Home windows Backup to your machine.
The replace additionally fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one by which print jobs despatched to a digital print queue failed with out an error, and one other by which Distant Desktop (RD) periods disconnected when a number of apps had been in use.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5029244 (OS Builds 19044.3324 and 19045.3324)
Launch date: August 8, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and August 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5028244 (OS Construct 19045.3271) Preview
Launch date: July 25, 2023
This replace fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one by which Timeout Detection and Restoration (TDR) errors may need occurred once you performed a recreation, one other by which some show and audio units had been lacking when your system resumed from sleep, and one other by which some VPN shoppers couldn’t set up connections.
There’s one situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5028166 (OS Builds 19044.3208 and 19045.3208)
Launch date: July 11, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and July 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5027293 (OS Construct 19045.3155) Preview
Launch date: June 27, 2023
This replace provides new options and enhancements to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. For extra data, see Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. It additionally enables you to authenticate throughout Microsoft clouds. This function additionally satisfies Conditional Entry checks if they’re wanted.
Quite a lot of bugs have been fastened, together with one by which scheduled month-to-month duties may not have run on time if the subsequent incidence occurred when daylight financial savings time occured, and one other by which all of the registry settings beneath the Insurance policies paths might have been deleted once you didn’t rename the native momentary consumer coverage file throughout Group Coverage processing.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5027215 (OS Builds 19044.3086 and 19045.3086)
Launch date: June 13, 2023
This construct has all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and June 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5026435 (OS Construct 19045.3031) Preview
Launch date: Could 23, 2023
This replace revamps the search field; Microsoft claims it should allow you to “simply entry apps, recordsdata, settings, and extra from Home windows and the net. Additionally, you will have entry to the newest search updates, reminiscent of search highlights.” In case you don’t just like the design, you possibly can revert to the prevailing search field through taskbar context menu or by responding to a dialog that seems once you use search.
Quite a lot of bugs have been fastened, together with one which didn’t allow you to entry the Server Message Block (SMB) shared folder and one other by which the Home windows Firewall dropped all connections to the IP deal with of a captive portal once you selected the Captive Portal Addresses possibility.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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Updates to Home windows 10 variations 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, and 22H2
KB5026361 (OS Builds 19042.2965, 19044.2965, and 19045.2965)
Launch date: Could 9, 2023
The replace fixes a race situation within the Home windows Native Administrator Password Resolution (LAPS) by which the Native Safety Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) stopped responding when the system processed a number of native account operations on the similar time.
This construct additionally consists of the standard updates from the April 25 KB5025297 Preview (detailed beneath), together with all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and Could 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5025297 (OS Construct 19045.2913) Preview
Launch date: April 25, 2023
This replace provides the power to sync language and area settings once you change your Microsoft account show language or regional format. Home windows saves these settings to your account in case you have turned on Language preferences sync in your Home windows backup settings. It additionally enables you to configure software group guidelines for firewall settings.
Quite a lot of bugs have been fastened, together with one which stopped cellular machine administration (MDM) prospects from printing, and one other by which the Tab Window Supervisor stopped responding in IE mode.
There’s one identified situation on this replace: units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5025221 (OS Builds 19042.2846, 19044.2846, and 19045.2846)
Launch date: April 11, 2023
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and April 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5023773 (OS Builds 19042.2788, 19044.2788, and 19045.2788) Preview
Launch date: March 21, 2023
This construct fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which Home windows classifies USB printers as multimedia units although they don’t seem to be, and one other by which lsass.exe may cease responding when it sends a Light-weight Listing Entry Protocol (LDAP) question to a website controller that has a really giant LDAP filter.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5023696 (OS Builds 19042.2728, 19044.2728, and 19045.2728)
Launch date: March 14, 2023
This construct implements part three of Distributed Element Object Mannequin (DCOM) hardening. After you put in this replace, you can not flip off the adjustments utilizing the registry key. See KB5004442 for particulars. It additionally fixes a bug by which becoming a member of an Lively Listing area failed once you reused an current laptop account. See KB5020276 for particulars.
It additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and March 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5022906 (OS Builds 19042.2673, 19044.2673, and 19045.2673) Preview
Launch date: February 21, 2023
On this construct, informational hyperlinks open quicker once you use Home windows Highlight on the lock display. A number of bugs had been additionally fastened, together with one which that stopped hyperlinks from working in Microsoft Excel, and one other in IE mode by which the textual content on the standing bar was not all the time seen.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5022834 (OS Builds 19042.2604, 19044.2604, and 19045.2604)
Launch date: February 14, 2023
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and February 2023 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5019275 (OS Builds 19042.2546, 19044.2546, and 19045.2546) Preview
Launch date: January 19, 2023
This construct shows storage alerts for Microsoft OneDrive subscribers on the Programs web page within the Settings app. Alerts seem when you’re near your storage restrict. You may as well handle your storage and buy further storage.
The construct additionally fixes a lot of bugs, together with one which affected searchindexer.exe and randomly stopped you from signing in or signing out.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5022282 (OS Builds 19042.2486, 19044.2486, and 19045.2486)
Launch date: January 10, 2023
This construct fixes Native Session Supervisor (LSM) bugs that allowed customers who didn’t have admin rights to carry out admin actions.
It additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and January 2023 Safety Updates. It additionally fixes a bug within the Digicam app, which stopped responding when reminiscence is low.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5021233 (OS Builds 19042.2364, 19043.2364, 19044.2364, and 19045.2364)
Launch date: December 13, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the December 2022 Safety Updates. It additionally fixes a bug within the Digicam app, which stopped responding when reminiscence was low.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5020030 (OS Builds 19042.2311, 19043.2311, 19044.2311, and 19045.2311) Preview
Launch date: November 15, 2022
On this construct, the search field now seems, by default, on the taskbar when the taskbar is on the high of your display or once you activate small taskbar button mode. As well as, Cortana is now not pre-pinned to your taskbar by default.
The construct additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which print outputs had been misaligned on some printers and one other in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by which automated investigation blocked stay response investigations. The construct additionally addresses some persistent replace failures for the Microsoft Retailer.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge. In one other bug, after putting in this replace, the audio on some Home windows units may not work.
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KB5019959 (OS Builds 19042.2251, 19043.2251, 19044.2251, and 19045.2251)
Launch date: November 8, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5020953 (OS Builds 19042.2194, 19043.2194, 19044.2194, and 19045.2194)
Launch date: October 28, 2022
This construct fixes a single bug that brought about Microsoft OneDrive to cease working. It occurred after you unlinked your machine, stopped syncing, or signed out of your account.
This construct has one identified situation, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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Home windows 10 2022 Replace (model 22H2)
Launch date: October 18, 2022
The Home windows 10 2022 Replace is, in Microsoft’s phrases, “a scoped launch centered on high quality enhancements to the general Home windows expertise in current function areas reminiscent of high quality, productiveness and safety.” In different phrases, there’s not a lot new right here, though Computerworld blogger Susan Bradley did uncover a handful of recent group insurance policies within the launch.
House and Professional editions of the 2022 Replace will obtain 18 months of servicing, and Enterprise and Training editions could have 30 months of servicing.
To put in the replace, go to Settings > Replace & Safety > Home windows Replace and choose Test for updates. If the replace seems, choose Obtain to put in it.
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Updates to Home windows 10 variations 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2
KB5018482 (OS Builds 19042.2193, 19043.2193, and 19044.2193)
Launch date: October 25, 2022
This construct fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which that brought about an OS improve to cease responding, after which fail, and one other in Microsoft Direct3D 9 video games by which the graphics {hardware} stopped working if it didn’t have a local Direct3D 9 driver.
This construct has one identified situation, by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5020435 (OS Builds 19042.2132, 19043.2132, and 19044.2132)
Launch date: October 17, 2022
This construct fixes a problem that affected some forms of Safe Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Safety (TLS) connections, by which there have been handshake failures. For builders, the affected connections are more likely to obtain a number of data adopted by a partial document with a dimension of lower than 5 bytes inside a single enter buffer. If the connection fails, your app will obtain the error, “SEC_E_ILLEGAL_MESSAGE”.
This construct has two identified points, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5018410 (OS Builds 19042.2130, 19043.2130, and 19044.2130)
Launch date: October 11, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and October 2022 Safety Updates.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5017380 (OS Builds 19042.2075, 19043.2075, and 19044.2075) Preview
Launch date: September 20, 2022
This construct enables you to seek for the controls for information and pursuits on the taskbar and modify them utilizing the Settings app. To vary your settings, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Information and pursuits. You may as well right-click the taskbar and choose Taskbar settings.
The construct additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which required you to reinstall an app in the event you didn’t get the app from the Microsoft Retailer. This happens after you improve to Home windows 10. It additionally fixes a bug that pressured the IE mode tabs in a session to reload.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge. In one other bug, after putting in this replace, the audio on some Home windows units may not work.
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KB5017308 (OS Builds 19042.2006, 19043.2006, and 19044.2006)
Launch date: September 13, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5016688 (OS Builds 19042.1949, 19043.1949, and 19044.1949) Preview
Launch date: August 26, 2022
This construct fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which Microsoft Edge stopped responding once you use IE mode. This situation additionally prevented you from interacting with a dialog. It additionally fixes a bug that brought about error 0x1E when a tool was shut down or restarted.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge. In one other bug, after putting in this replace, the audio on some Home windows units may not work.
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KB5016616 (OS Builds 19042.1889, 19043.1889, and 19044.1889)
Launch date: August 9, 2022
This construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one that may forestall the Enter Indicator and Language Bar from displaying within the notification space. This situation impacts units which have a couple of language put in.
It additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
KB5015807 (OS Builds 19042.1826, 19043.1826, and 19044.1826)
Date: July 12, 2022
This construct addresses a problem that redirects the PowerShell command output in order that transcript logs don’t comprise any output of the command. Meaning the decrypted password is misplaced. The construct additionally consists of enhancements made within the KB5014666 replace.
This construct has three identified points, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5014666 (OS Builds 19042.1806, 19043.1806, and 19044.1806) Preview
Launch Date: June 28, 2022
This construct provides IP deal with auditing for incoming Home windows Distant Administration (WinRM) connections in safety occasion 4262 and WinRM occasion 91. This addresses a problem that fails to log the supply IP deal with and machine title for a distant PowerShell connection. The construct additionally consists of a number of new Print and Scan options.
The construct additionally fixes a lot of bugs, together with one which prevented the Snip & Sketch app from capturing a screenshot or from opening utilizing the keyboard shortcut (Home windows emblem key + Shift + S).
This construct has three identified points, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5016139 (OS Builds 19042.1767, 19043.1767, and 19044.1767)
Launch date: June 20, 2022
This out-of-band construct, which is just obtainable for Home windows units that use Arm processors, fixes a bug that prevented Home windows Arm-based units from signing in utilizing Azure Lively Listing (AAD). Apps and providers that use AAD to check in, reminiscent of VPN connections, Microsoft Groups, and Microsoft Outlook, may also be affected.
This construct has 4 identified points, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge. In one other, Home windows units is perhaps unable use the Wi-Fi hotspot function. When trying to make use of the hotspot function, the host machine may lose the connection to the web after a consumer machine connects.
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KB5014699 (OS Builds 19042.1766, 19043.1766, and 19044.1766)
Launch date: June 14, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5014023 (OS Builds 19042.1741, 19043.1741, and 19044.1741) Preview
Launch date: June 2, 2022
This construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one which prevented Excel or Outlook from opening, one which slowed down file copying, and one which prevented web shortcuts from updating.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5015020 (OS Construct 19042.1708)
Launch date: Could 19, 2022
This out-of-band construct fixes two bugs: one that might trigger authentication failures for some providers on a server or consumer after you put in the Could 10, 2022 replace on area controllers, and one other that might forestall the set up of Microsoft Retailer apps once you allow Management-flow Enforcement.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5013942 (OS Builds 19042.1706, 19043.1706, and 19044.1706)
Launch date: Could 10, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the Could 2022 Safety Updates notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5011831 (OS Builds 19042.1682, 19043.1682, and 19044.1682) Preview
Launch date: April 25, 2022
This construct fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which brought about a distant desktop session to shut or a reconnection to cease responding whereas ready on the accessibility shortcut handler (sethc.exe), one other that that displayed a black display for some customers after they check in or signal out, and one other that prevented you from altering a password that has expired once you check in to a Home windows machine.
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KB5012599 (OS Builds 19042.1645, 19043.1645, and 19044.1645)
Launch date: April 12, 2022
This construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the April 2022 Safety Updates notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5011543 (OS Builds 19042.1620, 19043.1620, and 19044.1620) Preview
Launch date: March 22, 2022
This construct introduces Search highlights, which show notable moments about every day, together with holidays, anniversaries, and different occasions globally and in your area. To see extra particulars at a look, hover or click on on the illustration within the search field.
There are additionally quite a lot of small new options, together with a brand new coverage that expands an app’s high three notifications by default within the Motion Heart for apps that ship Home windows notifications. It shows a number of notifications that you may work together with concurrently.
As well as, there are all kinds of bug fixes, together with for a bug that stopped Microsoft Outlook’s offline search from returning current emails, and one other that prevented the Person Account Management (UAC) dialog from accurately displaying the applying that’s requesting elevated privileges.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5011487 (OS Builds 19042.1586, 19043.1586, and 19044.1586)
Launch date: March 8, 2022
This construct fixes a bug that happens once you try and reset a Home windows machine and its apps have folders that comprise reparse information, reminiscent of Microsoft OneDrive or OneDrive for Enterprise. When you choose Take away every part, recordsdata which have been downloaded or synced domestically from Microsoft OneDrive may not be deleted.
It additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the March 2022 Safety Updates notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5010415 (OS Builds 19042.1566, 19043.1566, and 19044.1566) Preview
Launch date: February 15, 2022
The construct enables you to share cookies between Microsoft Edge Web Explorer mode and Microsoft Edge, and provides help for warm including and the removing of non-volatile reminiscence (NVMe) namespaces.
It additionally fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which affected the Home windows search service and occurred once you queried utilizing the proximity operator, and one which brought about the Distant Desktop Service (RDS) server to change into unstable when the variety of signed in customers exceeds 100. This prevented you from accessing printed functions utilizing RDS on Home windows Server 2019.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5010342 (OS Builds 19042.1526, 19043.1526, and 19044.1526)
Launch date: February 8, 2022
The construct fixes a bug that causes a Light-weight Listing Entry Protocol (LDAP) modify operation to fail if the operation incorporates the SamAccountName and UserAccountControl attribute. It additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the February 2022 Safety Updates notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5009596 (OS Builds 19042.1503, 19043.1503, and 19044.1503) Preview
Launch date: January 25, 2022
The construct fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which stops printing or prints the fallacious output once you print utilizing USB on Home windows 10 model 2004 or later, and one other that causes functioning Bluetooth units to cease working once you try to hook up with a non-functioning Bluetooth machine. It additionally provides a reminder to Web Explorer 11 that notifies you about its upcoming retirement.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5010793 (OS Builds 19042.1469, 19043.1469, and 19044.1469)
Launch date: January 17, 2022
This out-of-band construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one which brought about IP Safety (IPSEC) connections that comprise a Vendor ID to fail. VPN connections utilizing Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) or IP safety Web Key Change (IPSEC IKE) might have additionally been affected. It additionally fastened a bug that might trigger Home windows Servers to restart unexpectedly after putting in the January 11, 2022 replace on area controllers (DCs).
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5009543 (OS Builds 19042.1466, 19043.1466, and 19044.1466)
Launch date: January 11, 2022
The construct fixes a bug within the Japanese Enter Technique Editors (IME) and consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the January 2022 Safety Replace notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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Updates to Home windows 10 variations 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2
KB5008212 (OS Builds 19041.1415, 19042.1415, 19043.1415, and 19044.1415)
Launch date: December 14, 2021
The construct consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the December 2021 Safety Replace notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5007253 (OS Builds 19041.1387, 19042.1387, 19043.1387, and 19044.1387) Preview
Launch date: November 22, 2021
This non-compulsory replace could be downloaded from the Microsoft Replace Catalog or by going to Settings > Replace & Safety > Home windows Replace > Non-obligatory updates obtainable.
The construct fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one which brought about the 32-bit model of Microsoft Excel to cease engaged on sure units once you exported to PDF, and one other that brought about the Settings web page to unexpectedly shut after you uninstalled a font.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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Home windows 10 November 2021 Replace (model 21H2)
Launch date: November 16, 2021
Model 21H2, known as the Home windows 10 November 2021 Replace, is the second function replace to Home windows 10 launched in 2021. Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new:
- Wi-Fi safety has been enhanced with WPA3 H2E requirements help.
- GPU compute help has been added within the Home windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Home windows (EFLOW) deployments for machine studying and different compute-intensive workflows.
There are additionally a lot of options designed for IT and enterprise:
- Home windows Hiya for Enterprise has a brand new deployment technique known as cloud belief that simplifies passwordless deployments.
- For elevated safety, there have been adjustments to the Common Home windows Platform (UWP) VPN APIs, which incorporates the power to implement frequent web-based authentication schemes and to reuse current protocols.
- Apps can now be provisioned from Azure Digital Desktop. This permits these apps to run identical to native apps, together with the power to repeat and paste between distant and native apps.
- The discharge closes the hole between Group Coverage and cellular machine administration (MDM) settings. The machine configuration settings catalog has been up to date to listing greater than 1,400 settings beforehand not obtainable for configuration through MDM. The brand new MDM insurance policies embody administrative template (ADMX) insurance policies, reminiscent of App Compat, Occasion Forwarding, Servicing, and Process Scheduler.
- An improve to Home windows 10 Enterprise consists of Common Print, which now helps print jobs of as much as 1GB or a sequence of print jobs from a person consumer that add as much as 1GB inside any 15-minute interval.
- Common Print integrates with OneDrive for internet and Excel for internet. This permits customers of any browser or machine linked to the web to print paperwork hosted in OneDrive for internet to a printer of their group with out putting in printer drivers on their units.
Microsoft has additionally introduced that beginning with this launch, Home windows 10 will get function updates solely every year.
Updates to Home windows 10 variations 2004, 20H2, and 21H1
KB5007186 (OS Builds 19041.1348, 19042.1348, and 19043.1348)
Launch date: November 9, 2021
This replace makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. The construct additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the November 2021 Safety Replace notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5006738 (OS Builds 19041.1320, 19042.1320, and 19043.1320)
Launch date: October 26, 2021
This replace makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. It additionally fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which prevented subtitles from displaying for some video apps and streaming video websites, and one other that typically brought about lock display backgrounds to look black in the event that they had been set as much as have a slideshow of images because the lock display background.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5006670 (OS Builds 19041.1288, 19042.1288, and 19043.1288)
Launch date: October 12, 2021
This replace makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. It additionally fixes a bug that prevented some functions, reminiscent of Microsoft Workplace and Adobe Reader, from opening or brought about them to cease responding.
The construct additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information and the October 2021 Safety Replace notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5005611 (OS Builds 19041.1266, 19042.1266, and 19043.1266) Preview
Launch date: September 30, 2021
This construct fixes a small variety of bugs, together with one by which functions reminiscent of Microsoft Outlook out of the blue stopped working throughout regular use, and one other that brought about blurry Information and Pursuits icons with sure display resolutions.
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KB5005565 (OS Builds 19041.1237, 19042.1237, and 19043.1237)
Launch date: September 14, 2021
This replace makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. It additionally fixes a bug that brought about PowerShell to create an infinite variety of youngster directories. The problem occurred once you used the PowerShell Transfer-Merchandise command to maneuver a listing to one among its youngsters. Consequently, the amount crammed up and the system stopped responding.
The construct additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5005101 (OS Builds 19041.1202, 19042.1202, and 19043.1202)
Launch date: September 1, 2021
This construct fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which reset syncing for Microsoft OneDrive to “Identified folders solely” after you put in a Home windows replace, and one other by which flickering and residual line artifacts appeared when resizing pictures.
The construct additionally consists of greater than 1,400 new cellular machine administration (MDM) insurance policies. With them, you possibly can configure insurance policies that Group Insurance policies additionally help. These new MDM insurance policies embody administrative template (ADMX) insurance policies, reminiscent of App Compat, Occasion Forwarding, Servicing, and Process Scheduler. Beginning in September 2021, you need to use the Microsoft Endpoint Supervisor (MEM) Settings Catalog to configure these new MDM insurance policies.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5005033 (OS Builds 19041.1165, 19042.1165, and 19043.1165)
Launch date: August 10, 2021
This construct adjustments the default privilege requirement for putting in drivers when utilizing Level and Print. After putting in this replace, you will need to have administrative privileges to put in drivers. See KB5005652, Level and Print Default Habits Change, and CVE-2021-34481 for extra data. The construct additionally makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates.
The construct additionally consists of all kinds of safety updates. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5004296 (OS Builds 19041.1151, 19042.1151, and 19043.1151)
Launch date: July 29, 2021
This construct fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which brought about the File Explorer window to lose focus when mapping a community drive, one other that didn’t detect web connectivity when linked to a VPN, and one other that brought about System Integrity to leak reminiscence.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or a customized ISO picture may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5004237 (OS Builds 19041.1110, 19042.1110, and 19043.1110)
Launch date: July 13, 2021
This construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one which made it troublesome to print to quite a lot of printers, primarily USB receipt or label printers. It additionally removes help for the PerformTicketSignature setting and completely allows Enforcement mode for CVE-2020-17049.
It additionally has quite a lot of safety updates for Home windows Apps, Home windows Administration, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Person Account Management (UAC), Working System Safety, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Linux, the Home windows Kernel, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, the Home windows HTML Platforms, the Home windows MSHTML Platform, and Home windows Graphics.
For extra particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need Microsoft Edge Legacy eliminated by this replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5004945 (OS Builds 19041.1083, 19042.1083, and 19043.1083)
Launch date: July 6, 2021
This construct closes a distant code execution exploit within the Home windows Print Spooler service, often known as “PrintNightmare,” as documented in CVE-2021-34527.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5004760 (OS Builds 19041.1082, 19042.1082, and 19043.1082)
Launch date: June 29, 2021
This out-of-band construct fixes a bug that will forestall you from opening PDFs utilizing Web Explorer 11 or apps that use the 64-bit model of the WebBrowser management.
Among the many construct’s identified points are one by which when utilizing the Microsoft Japanese Enter Technique Editor (IME) to enter Kanji characters in an app that routinely permits the enter of Furigana characters, you may not get the proper Furigana characters. You may have to enter the characters manually.
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KB5003690 (OS Builds 19041.1081, 19042.1081, and 19043.1081)
Launch date: June 21, 2021
This construct addresses about three dozen bugs, together with one by which signing in utilizing a PIN fails, and one other that may trigger a VPN to fail after renewing a consumer auto-enrolled certificates. It additionally removes Adobe Flash out of your PC and makes enhancements to the servicing stack, the element that installs Home windows updates.
Among the many construct’s identified points are one by which when utilizing the Microsoft Japanese Enter Technique Editor (IME) to enter Kanji characters in an app that routinely permits the enter of Furigana characters, you may not get the proper Furigana characters. You may have to enter the characters manually.
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KB5004476 (OS Builds 19041.1055, 19042.1055, and 19043.1055)
Launch date: June 11, 2021
This out-of-band construct fixes a bug that may redirect you to the Microsoft Retailer web page for Gaming Providers once you attempt to set up or begin an Xbox Sport Go recreation in your Home windows 10 machine. Moreover, you may obtain error 0x80073D26 or 0x8007139F. For extra data, see KB5004327.
As well as, the construct makes enhancements to the servicing stack, the element that installs Home windows updates.
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KB5003637 (OS Builds 19041.1052, 19042.1052, and 19043.1052)
Launch date: June 8, 2021
This construct consists of enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. It additionally consists of adjustments for verifying consumer names and passwords and for storing and managing recordsdata.
It additionally has quite a lot of safety updates to the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Administration, Home windows Cloud Infrastructure, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Kernel, Home windows HTML Platform, and Home windows Storage and Filesystems.
For extra particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10. Units utilizing Home windows Replace for Enterprise or that join on to Home windows Replace aren’t impacted.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5003214 (OS Builds 19041.1023, 19042.1023, and 19043.1023) Preview
Launch date: Could 25, 2021
This construct provides the Open on hover possibility (which is checked by default) to the Information and pursuits menu. To entry it, right-click a clean house on the Home windows taskbar and open the Information and pursuits menu.
As well as, it makes high quality enhancements to the servicing stack, which is the element that installs Home windows updates. It additionally consists of all kinds of small bug fixes, together with one which displayed gadgets on the desktop after they’ve been deleted from the desktop, and one other that brought about configuration issues with units that had been configured utilizing cellular machine administration (MDM) RestrictedGroups, LocalUsersAndGroups, or UserRights insurance policies.
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Home windows 10 Could 2021 Replace (model 21H1)
Launch date: Could 18, 2021
Model 21H1, known as the Home windows 10 Could 2021 Replace, is the latest replace to Home windows 10. This can be a comparatively minor replace, but it surely does have a couple of new options.
Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new in 21H1:
- Home windows Hiya multicamera help: When you have an exterior Home windows Hiya digital camera in your PC, you possibly can set the exterior digital camera as your default digital camera. (Home windows Hiya is used for signing into PCs.) Why ought to this transformation matter to you? When you have an exterior digital camera, you most likely purchased it as a result of it’s superior to the built-in, inner one in your laptop. So with this transformation, you’ll be capable to use the extra correct digital camera for logging into your PC.
- Improved Home windows Defender Utility Guard efficiency: Home windows Defender Utility Guard lets directors configure functions to run in an remoted, virtualized container for improved safety. With this transformation, paperwork will open extra rapidly. It may possibly presently take as much as a minute to open an Workplace doc in it.
- Higher Home windows Administration Instrumentation (WMI) Group Coverage Service help: Microsoft has made it simpler for directors to alter settings to help distant work.
Updates to Home windows 10 variations 2004 and 20H2 previous to the 21H1 launch
KB5003173 (OS Builds 19041.985 and 19042.985)
Launch date: Could 11, 2021
This construct consists of quite a lot of safety updates for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, the Home windows Kernel, Home windows Media, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, and the Home windows Silicon Platform. For extra particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information. It additionally updates safety for Bluetooth drivers and Home windows OLE (compound paperwork).
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10. Units utilizing Home windows Replace for Enterprise or that join on to Home windows Replace aren’t impacted.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5001391 (OS Builds 19041.964 and 19042.964) Preview
Launch date: April 28, 2021
This replace offers you fast entry to an built-in feed of dynamic content material, reminiscent of information, climate, sports activities, and extra, that updates all through the day, through the Home windows taskbar. You may personalize the feed to match your pursuits. For extra particulars, see Microsoft’s “Customized content material at a look: Introducing information and pursuits on the Home windows 10 taskbar.”
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10. As well as, units with Home windows installations created from customized offline media or customized ISO pictures may need the legacy model of Microsoft Edge eliminated by the replace, however not routinely changed by the brand new Microsoft Edge.
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KB5001330 (OS Builds 19041.928 and 19042.928)
Launch date: April 13, 2021
This replace consists of all kinds of safety updates, for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Apps, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Workplace Media, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Cryptography, the Home windows AI Platform, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Virtualization, and Home windows Media. For particulars, see Microsoft’s Safety Replace Information web site.
There are a number of different safety points addressed, together with fixing a possible elevation of privilege vulnerability in the way in which Azure Lively Listing internet sign-in permits arbitrary looking from the third-party endpoints used for federated authentication.
On this construct, Microsoft additionally eliminated the Microsoft Edge legacy browser and changed it with the brand new Chromium-based Edge.
There are a number of identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10. Units utilizing Home windows Replace for Enterprise or that join on to Home windows Replace aren’t impacted.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB5000842 (OS Builds 19041.906 and 19042.906) Preview
Launch date: March 29, 2021
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one which made excessive dynamic vary (HDR) screens seem a lot darker than anticipated, and one other that brought about video playback to be out of sync in duplicate mode with a number of screens.
There are a number of identified points on this construct, together with one by which System and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10. Units utilizing Home windows Replace for Enterprise or that join on to Home windows Replace aren’t impacted.
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KB5001649 (OS Builds 19041.870 and 19042.870)
Launch date: March 18, 2021
This out-of-band replace fixes a single bug by which graphical content material couldn’t be printed.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which system and consumer certificates could also be misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10.
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KB5001567 (OS Builds 19041.868 and 19042.868)
Date: March 15, 2021
This out-of-band replace fixes a single bug, which brought about a blue display once you tried to print to sure printers utilizing some apps.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, by which system and consumer certificates could also be misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10.
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KB5000802 (OS Builds 19041.867 and 19042.867)
Launch date: March 9, 2021
This replace consists of all kinds of safety updates for the Home windows Shell, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Administration, Home windows Apps, Home windows Person Account Management (UAC), Home windows Virtualization, the Home windows Kernel, the Microsoft Graphics Element, Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge Legacy, and Home windows Media. For particulars, see the Microsoft Safety Replace Information.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4601382 (OS Builds 19041.844 and 19042.844) Preview
Launch date: February 24, 2021
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one which brought about video playback to flicker when rendering on sure low-latency succesful screens, and one other that typically prevented the enter of strings into the Enter Technique Editor (IME).
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KB4601319 (OS Builds 19041.804 and 19042.804)
Launch date: February 9, 2021
This replace fixes a bug and consists of quite a lot of safety updates. The bug fastened might harm the file system of some units and stop them from beginning up after working chkdsk /f.
Safety updates are offered for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Apps, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Cloud Infrastructure, Home windows Administration, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Cryptography, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Core Networking, and Home windows Hybrid Cloud Networking. For particulars, see the Microsoft Safety Replace Information.
There are three identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4598242 (OS Builds 19041.746 and 19042.746)
Launch date: January 12, 2021
This construct fixes quite a lot of safety vulnerabilities, together with one with HTTPS-based intranet servers, and a safety bypass vulnerability in the way in which the Printer Distant Process Name (RPC) binding handles authentication for the distant Winspool interface.
There are additionally safety updates to Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Media, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Cryptography, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Peripherals, and Home windows Hybrid Storage Providers. For particulars see the Microsoft Safety Replace Information.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10, model 1809.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4592438 (OS Builds 19041.685 and 19042.685)
Launch date: December 8, 2020
This replace fixes a safety vulnerability by stopping functions that run as a SYSTEM account from printing to “FILE:” ports. It additionally has safety updates for the legacy model of Microsoft Edge, the Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Media, Home windows Fundamentals, and Home windows Virtualization. For particulars see the Microsoft Safety Replace Information.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4586853 (OS Builds 19041.662 and 19042.662) Preview
Launch date: November 30, 2020
This construct fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which brought about Narrator to cease responding after you unlock a tool if the app was in use earlier than you locked the machine, and one other that made makes the contact keyboard unstable within the Mail app.
There are two identified points on this replace, one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10, and one other by which customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Japanese or Chinese language languages may expertise points when trying numerous duties.
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KB4594440 (OS Builds 19041.631 and 19042.631)
Launch date: November 19, 2020
This minor construct fixes points with Kerberos authentication associated to the PerformTicketSignature registry subkey worth in CVE-2020-17049, which was part of the November 10, 2020 Home windows replace.
There are two identified points on this replace, one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10, model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10, and one other by which customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Japanese or Chinese language languages may expertise points when trying numerous duties.
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KB4586781 (OS Builds 19041.630 and 19042.630)
Launch date: November 10, 2020
This construct updates the 2020 DST begin date for the Fiji Islands to December 20, 2020 and consists of safety updates to the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows Enter and Composition, Microsoft Graphics Element, the Home windows Pockets Service, Home windows Fundamentals, and the Home windows Kernel. For particulars see the discharge notes for November 2020 Safety Updates.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10, and one other by which customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Japanese or Chinese language languages may expertise points when trying numerous duties.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4580364 (OS Builds 19041.610 and 19042.610)
Launch date: October 29, 2020
This replace makes it simpler to hook up with others in Skype, utilizing Meet Now from the taskbar. As well as, there are all kinds of bug fixes, together with for one which displayed the wrong CPU frequency for sure processors, one other that displayed nothing on the display for 5 minutes or extra throughout a Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) session, and one other that brought about the Docker pull operation to fail because of a Code Integrity (CI) Coverage that blocks the import of a Home windows container picture.
There are two identified points on this replace, together with one by which system and consumer certificates is perhaps misplaced when updating a tool from Home windows 10 model 1809 or later to a later model of Home windows 10, and one other by which customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Japanese or Chinese language languages may expertise points when trying numerous duties.
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Home windows 10 October 2020 Replace (model 20H2)
Launch date: October 20, 2020
Model 20H2, known as the Home windows 10 October 2020 Replace, is the latest replace to Home windows 10. This can be a comparatively minor replace however does have a couple of new options.
Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new in 20H2:
- The brand new Chromium-based model of the Microsoft Edge browser is now constructed instantly into Home windows 10.
- The System web page of Management Panel has been eliminated. These settings have been moved to the Settings app.
- The Begin menu’s tiled background will match your alternative of Home windows themes. So the tiled background shall be gentle in the event you’re utilizing the Home windows 10 gentle theme and darkish in the event you’re utilizing the Home windows 10 darkish theme.
- If you use Alt-Tab, Edge will now show every tab in your browser in a distinct Alt-Tab window. Beforehand, once you used Alt-Tab, Edge would get solely a single window. You may change this new conduct by going to Settings > System > Multitasking.
- If you pin a web site to the taskbar in Edge, you possibly can click on or mouse over its icon to see all of your browser tabs which might be open for that web site.
- If you detach a keyboard on a 2-in-1 machine, the machine will routinely swap to the tablet-based interface. Beforehand, you had been requested whether or not you wished to change. You may change that setting by going to Settings > System > Pill.
- The Your Telephone app will get quite a lot of new options for some Samsung units. When utilizing one of many units, you possibly can work together with the Android apps in your telephone from the Your Telephone app on Home windows 10.
What IT must know: Home windows 10 model 20H2 additionally has quite a lot of small adjustments of be aware for sysadmins and people in IT.
- IT professionals who administer a number of cellular units get a brand new Trendy Machine Administration (MDM) “Native Customers and Teams” settings coverage that mirrors choices obtainable for units which might be managed by Group Coverage.
- Home windows Autopilot, used to arrange and configure units in enterprises, has gained quite a lot of small enhancement, together with higher deployment of HoloLens units, the addition of co-management insurance policies, enhancements to Autopilot deployment reporting, and the power to reuse Configuration Supervisor activity sequences to configure units.
- Microsoft Defender Utility Guard now helps Workplace. This permits untrusted Workplace paperwork from exterior an enterprise to launch in an remoted container to cease probably malicious content material from compromising computer systems or exploiting private data discovered on them.
- Newest Cumulative Updates (LCUs) and Servicing Stack Updates (SSUs) have been mixed right into a single cumulative month-to-month replace, obtainable through Microsoft Catalog or Home windows Server Replace Providers.
- Biometric sign-on has been made safer. Home windows Hiya now has help for virtualization-based safety for sure fingerprint and face sensors, which protects, isolates, and secures a consumer’s biometric authentication information.
For extra particulars, see Microsoft’s “What’s new for IT professionals in Home windows 10, model 20H2.”
Updates to Home windows 10 model 2004 previous to the 20H2 launch
KB4579311 (OS Construct 19041.572)
Launch date: October 13, 2020
This construct fixes a couple of minor bugs and consists of quite a lot of safety updates. Among the many bugs fastened are a problem with creating null ports utilizing the consumer interface, and one other situation with a attainable elevation of privilege in win32k.
Safety updates had been issued for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Media, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Virtualization, and Home windows Kernel. For particulars, see the Launch Notes for October 2020 Safety Updates.
There are two identified points on this construct: In a single, customers of Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may need points with enter. Within the different, when putting in a third-party driver you may obtain the error “Home windows can’t confirm the writer of this driver software program.” You may additionally see the error “No signature was current within the topic” when trying to view the signature properties utilizing Home windows Explorer.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4577063 (OS Construct 19041.546) Preview
Launch date: October 1, 2020
This construct reduces distortions and aberrations in Home windows Blended Actuality head-mounted shows and fixes all kinds of bugs, together with one which brought about random line breaks once you redirect PowerShell console error output, and one other that that prevented the Language Bar from showing when a consumer indicators in to a brand new session.
There’s one identified situation on this construct: Customers of Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may need points with enter.
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KB4571756 (OS Construct 19041.508)
Launch date: September 8, 2020
This construct consists of safety updates for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Media, Home windows Shell, Home windows Cloud Infrastructure, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Administration, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, and the Microsoft JET Database Engine.
For particulars, see the Launch Notes for September 2020 Safety Updates.
The construct additionally fixes a safety vulnerability situation with consumer proxies and HTTP-based intranet servers, and addresses a problem with a attainable elevation of privileges in windowmanagement.dll.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this construct: Customers of Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may need points with enter.
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KB4571744 (OS Construct 19041.488)
Launch date: September 3, 2020
This construct fixes a laundry listing of minor bugs, together with one which prevented apps from downloading an replace or opening in sure eventualities, one other that prevented customers from lowering the dimensions of home windows and one other that brought about File Explorer to cease working once you browsed directories of RAW pictures and different file varieties.
There’s one identified situation on this construct: Customers of Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may need points with enter.
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KB4566782 (OS Construct 19041.450)
Launch date: August 11, 2020
This construct consists of safety updates for the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Web Explorer, Home windows Graphics, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Media, Home windows Shell, the Home windows Pockets Service, Microsoft Edge Legacy, Home windows Cloud Infrastructure, Home windows Authentication, the Home windows AI Platform, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, Home windows Replace Stack, Home windows File Server and Clustering, Home windows Hybrid Storage Providers, Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, the Microsoft JET Database Engine, and Home windows SQL elements.
For particulars, see the Launch Notes for August 2020 Safety Updates.
The construct additionally fixes a problem in Common Home windows Platform (UWP) apps that permits single sign-on authentication when an app doesn’t have the Enterprise Authentication functionality.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
There’s one identified situation on this construct: When utilizing some apps, reminiscent of Microsoft Excel, customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may obtain an error, or the app may cease responding or shut when trying to pull utilizing the mouse.
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KB4568831 (OS Construct 19041.423)
Launch date: July 31, 2020
This minor construct addresses all kinds of bugs and points, together with one which brought about the Settings web page to shut unexpectedly, which prevented default functions from being arrange correctly, and one other that prevented some functions from printing to community printers.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, by which when utilizing some apps reminiscent of Excel, customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may obtain an error, or the app may cease responding or shut when customers try to pull utilizing the mouse.
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KB4565503 (OS Construct 19041.388)
Launch date: July 14, 2020
This construct fixes a number of bugs, together with one that may forestall you from connecting to OneDrive utilizing the OneDrive app. It additionally has safety updates for the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, the Microsoft Retailer, Home windows Graphics, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Media, Home windows Shell, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Administration, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Hybrid Cloud Networking, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, Home windows Replace Stack, Home windows MSXML, Home windows File Server and Clustering, Home windows Distant Desktop, Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge Legacy, and the Microsoft JET Database Engine. For particulars, see the Launch notes for the July 2020 Safety Updates.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, by which when utilizing some apps, reminiscent of Microsoft Excel, customers of the Microsoft Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language and Japanese may obtain an error, or the app may cease responding or shut when trying to pull utilizing the mouse.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4567523 (OS Construct 19041.331)
Launch date: June 18, 2020
This minor construct fixes a single situation, by which sure printers couldn’t print, generated print errors, or brought about apps and print spoolers to shut unexpectedly.
There’s one identified situation on this construct, which impacts the ImeMode property to manage the Enter Technique Editor (IME) mode for particular person textual content entry fields to extend typing effectivity. Some IMEs on this construct may need points utilizing the ImeMode property with sure apps, for instance the enter mode won’t swap routinely to Kanji or Hiragana.
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KB4557957 (OS Construct 19041.329)
Launch date: June 9, 2020
This construct improves the reliability of voice assistants that use key phrases and has safety updates for the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Media, Home windows Kernel, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Shell, Home windows Silicon Platform, Microsoft Xbox, the Microsoft Retailer, Home windows Cloud Infrastructure, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Administration, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Cryptography, Microsoft HoloLens, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Peripherals, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, Home windows File Server and Clustering, Home windows Hybrid Storage Providers, the Microsoft JET Database Engine, and the Home windows Replace Stack. For particulars, see the Launch Notes for June 2020 Safety Updates.
There aren’t any identified points on this construct.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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Home windows 10 Could 2020 Replace (model 2004)
Launch date: Could 27, 2020
Model 2004, known as the Home windows 10 Could 2020 Replace, is the latest replace to Home windows 10. This can be a comparatively minor replace however does have quite a lot of new options for each customers and system directors. For extra particulars, see: “Overview: Home windows 10 Could 2020 Replace delivers little tweaks that add as much as… properly, not rather a lot.”
Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new in 2004:
- Cortana now runs as a standalone app in a resizable window. It additionally loses quite a lot of capabilities, reminiscent of enjoying music, controlling residence units, and dealing on the lock display.
- Process Supervisor now shows new data, together with the temperature of your GPU and your disk kind.
- Settings will get many small tweaks, together with including a header with account data, and a redone community standing web page that mixes data that was once discovered on a number of pages, reminiscent of your IP deal with, present connection properties and information utilization.
- The Home windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will get extra options. It now makes use of an actual Linux kernel, and is quicker than beforehand.
- IT can now make the most of Home windows Hiya biometrics logins somewhat than passwords, by setting that up because the default on enterprise units.
- Putting in and establishing Home windows for others has been made simpler due to new controls added to Dynamic Replace, which might result in much less downtime throughout set up for customers.
- Quite a lot of new instructions have been given to PowerShell for Supply Optimization, a Home windows networking service that reduces bandwidth consumption by sharing the work of downloading replace and improve packages amongst a number of units in enterprise deployments.
- The safety of the Chromium model of Edge has been improved, due to porting Utility Guard to it.
Updates to the November 2019 Replace (model 1909)
KB4556799 (OS Construct 18363.836)
Launch date: Could 12, 2020
This construct updates the 2020 begin date for daylight saving time (DST) within the Kingdom of Morocco, and has safety updates for Web Explorer, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Media, Home windows Shell, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Edge, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Cryptography, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Linux, Home windows Replace Stack, Home windows Community Safety and Containers, Home windows Lively Listing, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, and the Microsoft JET Database Engine. For particulars, see the Launch Notes for Could 2020 Safety Updates.
There aren’t any identified points on this construct.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4550945 (OS Construct 18363.815)
Launch date: April 21, 2020
This replace fixes quite a lot of small bugs, together with one which turned off notifications for units that use a VPN on a mobile community, and one other that generated sudden notifications once you change the default software settings.
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KB4549951 (OS Construct 18363.778)
Launch date: April 14, 2020
This safety replace fixes quite a lot of safety holes in Home windows 10, together with for Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, and a Win32k Data Disclosure Vulnerability. For extra particulars, see the April 2020 Safety Replace Launch Notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4554364 (OS Construct 18363.753)
Launch date: March 30, 2020
This non-compulsory replace fixes a bug that might trigger Home windows to show a restricted or no web connection standing within the notification space on units that use a guide or auto-configured proxy, particularly with a digital non-public community (VPN). The bug additionally might forestall some units from connecting to the web utilizing functions that use WinHTTP or WinINet.
Be aware: Microsoft recommends that the replace be utilized solely to units which might be affected by the bug.
There aren’t any identified points within the replace.
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KB4541335 (OS Construct 18363.752)
Launch date: March 24, 2020
This minor replace fixes half-a-dozen small bugs, together with one which brought about an error when printing to a doc share, and one other that prevented functions from closing. There aren’t any identified points within the replace.
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KB4551762 (OS Construct 18363.720)
Launch date: March 12, 2020
This security-only replace has a patch for Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3), a community communication protocol situation that gives shared entry to recordsdata, printers, and serial ports. For particulars, see the March 2020 Safety Updates Launch Notes.
There’s one identified situation with the replace: when utilizing Home windows Server containers, you may encounter issues with 32-bit functions and processes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4540673 (OS Construct 18363.719)
Launch date: March 10, 2020
This construct fixes one small bug and plugs a sequence of safety holes. It fixes a problem that prevented some customers from upgrading Home windows 10 due to corrupted third-party assemblies.
The replace additionally has safety patches Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Media, Home windows Silicon Platform, Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Authentication, Home windows Peripherals, Home windows Replace Stack, and Home windows Server. For particulars, see the March 2020 Safety Updates Launch Notes.
There’s one identified situation with the replace, by which when utilizing Home windows Server containers, you may encounter issues with 32-bit functions and processes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4535996 (OS Construct 18363.693)
Launch date: February 27, 2020
This construct fixes all kinds of minor bugs, together with one which prevented some functions from printing to community printers, and one other that brought about Microsoft Narrator to cease working when a consumer session is longer than half-hour.
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KB4532693 (OS Construct 18363.657)
Launch date: February 11, 2020
This Patch Tuesday construct fixes two small bugs and plugs a sequence of safety holes. It fixes issues folks skilled when migrating cloud printers throughout an improve and improves the set up expertise when updating to Home windows 10, model 1903.
The replace additionally has safety patches for Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Home windows Fundamentals, Home windows Cryptography, Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Community Safety and Containers, Home windows Server, Home windows Administration, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Media, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, and Home windows Shell. For particulars, see the February 2020 Safety Updates Launch Notes.
There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4532695 (OS Construct 18363.628)
Launch date: January 28, 2020
This construct improves the accuracy of Home windows Hiya face authentication and fixes quite a lot of small bugs, together with one which brought about a grey field to look once you searched inside Management Panel and File Explorer, one other that prevented File Explorer’s Fast Entry management from pasting clipboard content material utilizing the fitting mouse button, and one other that brought about the contact keyboard to shut once you chosen any key. There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
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KB4528760 (OS Construct 18363.592)
Launch date: January 14, 2020
This construct has safety updates for Home windows App Platform and Frameworks, Home windows Enter and Composition, Home windows Administration, Home windows Cryptography, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, and Home windows Server. For particulars, see the January 2020 Safety Updates Launch Notes. It additionally has updates for Microsoft HoloLens (OS Construct 18362.1044).
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4530684 (OS Construct 18363.535)
Launch date: December 10, 2019
This minor replace fixes two minor points — one that may trigger error 0x3B in cldflt.sys on some units, and one other that may forestall you from creating a neighborhood consumer account utilizing the Enter Technique Editor (IME) for Chinese language, Japanese, or Korean languages when establishing a brand new Home windows machine throughout the Out of Field Expertise (OOBE).
The replace additionally has safety patches for Home windows Virtualization, Home windows Kernel, the Microsoft Scripting Engine, and Home windows Server. For particulars, see the December 2019 Safety Updates Launch Notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4524570 (OS Construct 18363.476)
Launch date: November 12, 2019
This replace fixes safety points in Home windows, Web Explorer and Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based). For particulars, see Microsoft’s November 2019 Safety Replace notes.
There’s one identified situation on this replace, in which you will not be capable to create a neighborhood consumer when establishing a brand new Home windows machine throughout the Out of Field Expertise (OOBE) whereas utilizing Enter Technique Editor (IME). This situation may have an effect on you if you’re utilizing the IME for Chinese language, Japanese, or Korean languages.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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Home windows 10 November 2019 Replace (model 1909)
Launch date: Nov. 12, 2019
Model 1909, known as the Home windows 10 November 2019 Replace, is the latest replace to Home windows 10. There are only a few new options on this replace, making it extra like a service pack of previous than a function replace. At this level it’s not clear whether or not sooner or later there shall be one full-featured replace and one service-pack-like replace per yr or whether or not Microsoft will return to its two-feature-updates-a-year schedule. For extra particulars, see “What we all know up to now concerning the uncommon Home windows 10 1909” and “5 unanswered questions on Home windows 10 1909.”
Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new for customers in 1909.
- It enables you to create calendar occasions straight from the taskbar. To do it, click on the time on the taskbar and also you’ll open the Calendar view. Now click on a date and time, then kind the occasion’s title into the textual content field. You’ll additionally be capable to select the date, time and site.
- If you kind a search into the search field, it should now search by recordsdata in your OneDrive account in addition to in your PC. Additionally, as you kind, a drop-down menu with instructed recordsdata seems. Click on a file to open it.
- Voice assistants along with Cortana, together with Amazon’s Alexa, will be capable to run on Home windows 10’s lock display.
- Underneath-the-hood enhancements ought to velocity up the efficiency of some PCs, in addition to enhance the battery life in some laptops.
- The Begin Menu has gotten minor tweaks. If you hover over gadgets within the navigation pane on the left facet of the menu, the gadgets clearly present what you’re about to click on.
What IT must know: The next options in 1909 are of be aware for IT workers.
- Home windows containers now not have to have their host and container variations match. That requirement restricted Home windows from supporting mixed-version container pod eventualities. Beforehand, containers from older variations of Home windows 10 couldn’t be run on newer variations of Home windows 10. On this replace, it’s attainable, so {that a} container made utilizing 1903, for instance, could be run on 1909.
- Home windows Defender Credential Guard, which protects enterprise customers’ logins and credentials in opposition to theft, is now obtainable for ARM64 units. Some Home windows 10 convertible PCs use ARM64.
- Enterprises can now use Microsoft’s Intune enterprise mobility administration (EMM) service to permit units working Home windows 10 in S mode to put in and run Win32 (desktop) apps. Earlier than this, S Mode solely allowed units to run apps from the Microsoft Retailer. Microsoft Retailer apps don’t run on the desktop.
- The safety of BitLocker encryption has been improved. Each time BitLocker is used to encrypt a tool, a restoration key’s created, however earlier than this safety enchancment, it was attainable for an unauthorized consumer to get entry to the restoration key and decrypt the machine. Now, PCs have further safety if a key’s uncovered. Right here’s how Microsoft explains the change: “Key-rolling or Key-rotation function allows safe rolling of Restoration passwords on MDM managed AAD units upon on demand request from Microsoft Intune/MDM instruments or upon each time restoration password is used to unlock the BitLocker protected drive.”
There are two identified points on this replace: one by which some customers can not set Win32 program defaults for sure app and file kind mixtures utilizing the Open with… command or Settings > Apps > Default apps, and one other by which Microsoft Notepad and different Win32 applications can’t be set as default functions.
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KB4464330 (OS Construct 17763.55)
Launch date: October 9, 2018
This very minor, non-feature replace fixes a problem by which an incorrect timing calculation could prematurely delete consumer profiles on units topic to the “Delete consumer profiles older than a specified variety of day” group coverage. It additionally has safety updates for Home windows Kernel, Microsoft Graphics Element, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Web Explorer, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, Home windows Linux, Home windows Wi-fi Networking, Home windows MSXML, the Microsoft JET Database Engine, Home windows Peripherals, Microsoft Edge, Home windows Media Participant, and Web Explorer. (Go to the Safety Replace Information for extra particulars about these updates.)
There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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Home windows 10 October 2018 Replace (model 1809)
Launch date: October 2, 2018; paused October 5; re-released November 13, 2018
Model 1809, known as the Home windows 10 October 2018 Replace, is the function replace that preceded the Could 2019 Replace. Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new for customers in it. (For extra particulars, see our full assessment.)
- A brand new, powered-up Home windows Clipboard can maintain a number of clips, retailer clips completely, allow you to preview clips and select which one you’d like to stick right into a doc, and share clips throughout Home windows 10 units.
- A brand new screenshot and annotation software known as Snip & Sketch enables you to seize and annotate the complete display, an oblong portion of the display or a freehand-drawn portion of it. After you’re taking a display seize, you possibly can annotate it after which reserve it to a file, copy it to the Clipboard, open it in one other program or share it through e-mail, social media and different strategies.
- Storage Sense, which helps save space for storing, now works with OneDrive Recordsdata On-Demand to wash out recordsdata you’ve downloaded from OneDrive cloud storage to your PC however that you just don’t use any longer. You may select how lengthy you prefer to the cloud recordsdata to remain in your PC unused earlier than you need them deleted, from by no means to 60 days.
- The Microsoft Edge browser enables you to set autoplay permissions for sound and video on web sites on a site-by-site foundation. It additionally enables you to lookup phrase definitions in its built-in eReader for books and PDFs, and mark up PDFs and books utilizing a highlighter and by including notes.
- The brand new Your Telephone app hyperlinks Home windows 10 units to iOS and Android telephones. It lets you begin internet looking on an iOS or Android machine after which proceed the place you left off in your PC. It additionally enables you to view images in your Android telephone out of your Home windows 10 PC.
- Search Previews have been powered up barely. You now not have to click on to show the preview panel; it opens routinely. It additionally now exhibits recordsdata discovered in your PC.
- Smaller adjustments embody a brand new darkish theme for File Explorer; the addition of the SwiftKey swipe keyboard, which helps you to enter textual content by swiping a finger throughout an onscreen keyboard; updates which might be much less intrusive; and quicker sign-ins on shared PCs.
What IT must know: There are few important adjustments that have an effect on IT within the Home windows 10 October 2018 Replace, apart from New Microsoft Edge Group Insurance policies that allow admins allow and disable full-screen mode, printing, the favorites bar, and browser historical past saves. IT also can enable or ban Edge extensions (not that there are lots of obtainable) and configure the House button and new tab web page and startup choices.
Updates to the April 2018 Replace (model 1803)
KB4458469 (OS Construct 17134.319)
Launch date: September 20, 2018
This non-feature replace fixes a number of dozen points, together with one that forestalls customized keyboard layouts from working accurately, one other that forestalls some Bluetooth units from pairing with Home windows, and one other by which a day by day, repetitive activity begins unexpectedly when the duty is first created or begins when the duty is up to date.
There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
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KB4464218 (OS Construct 17134.286)
Launch date: September 17, 2018
This non-feature replace fixes a single situation that happens after putting in any of the updates launched between July 24, 2018 and September 11, 2018. In these updates, Home windows now not acknowledges the Private Data change (PFX) certificates used for authenticating to a Wi-Fi or VPN connection. So Intune takes a very long time to ship consumer profiles as a result of it doesn’t acknowledge that the required certificates is on the machine. This construct fixes the issue.
There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
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KB4457128 (OS Construct 17134.285)
Launch date: September 11, 2018
This non-feature replace consists of a number of safety updates and fixes a problem that causes the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) service to have extreme CPU utilization. It gives safety in opposition to a Spectre Variant 2 vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715) for ARM64 units. And it additionally consists of safety updates to Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft scripting engine, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows Media, Home windows Shell, Home windows Hyper-V, Home windows datacenter networking, Home windows virtualization and kernel, Home windows Linux, Home windows kernel, Microsoft JET Database Engine, Home windows MSXML, and Home windows Server. (See the Safety Replace Information for particulars.)
There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4346783 (OS Construct 17134.254)
Launch date: August 30, 2018
This non-feature replace addresses somewhat greater than a dozen issues, together with one by which a problem in Microsoft Basis Class functions could trigger functions to flicker, and one other by which Microsoft Edge or different UWP functions can’t carry out consumer authentication when the non-public key’s saved on a TPM 2.0 machine.
There’s one identified situation within the replace: Microsoft Edge could fail when utilizing the New Utility Guard Window, however regular Microsoft Edge cases aren’t affected.
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KB4343909 (OS Construct 17134.228)
Launch date: August 14, 2018
This non-feature replace addresses a handful of minor points, together with fixing an issue that brought about excessive CPU utilization and efficiency degradation on some methods with Household 15h and 16h AMD processors, and fixing one other one which considerably lowered battery life after upgrading to Home windows 10 model 1803, the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace.
It additionally has safety fixes, together with a number of for Home windows Server, and protections in opposition to a brand new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability often known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) that impacts Intel Core processors and Intel Xeon processors
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4340917 (OS Construct 17134.191)
Launch date: July 24, 2018
This non-feature replace addresses a dozen minor points, together with issues updating time zone data, a problem that prevented OpenType fonts from printing in Win32 functions and a problem with Roaming Person Profiles the place the AppDataLocal and AppDataLocallow folders are incorrectly synchronized at consumer logon and logoff, amongst others.
There’s one identified situation: After set up of any of the July 2018 .NET Framework Safety Updates, a COM element will fail to load due to “entry denied,” “class not registered,” or “inner failure occurred for unknown causes” errors. For extra particulars, see KB4345913.
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KB4345421 (OS Construct 17134.166)
Launch date: July 16, 2018
This non-feature replace addresses a small variety of points, together with one by which the DHCP Failover server could trigger enterprise shoppers to obtain an invalid configuration when requesting a brand new IP deal with, leading to a lack of connectivity. It additionally fixes one other situation that will trigger the restart of the SQL Server service to fail sometimes, itemizing the error “Tcp port is already in use.” There aren’t any identified points with the replace.
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KB4338819 (OS Construct 17134.165)
Launch date: July 10, 2018
This safety replace addresses a small variety of points, together with one that will trigger the Mitigation Choices Group Coverage client-side extension to fail throughout GPO processing. It additionally evaluates the Home windows ecosystem to assist guarantee software and machine compatibility for all updates to Home windows and allows debugging of WebView content material in UWP apps utilizing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Preview app that’s obtainable within the Microsoft Retailer.
The replace additionally consists of safety updates for Web Explorer, Home windows apps, Home windows graphics, Home windows information heart networking, Home windows wi-fi networking, Home windows virtualization, Home windows kernel, and Home windows Server. All safety updates repair vulnerabilities within the Microsoft .NET Framework.
The replace has a identified situation: After putting in this replace on a DHCP Failover Server, Enterprise shoppers could obtain an invalid configuration when requesting a brand new IP deal with. This will lead to lack of connectivity as methods fail to resume their leases.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4284848 (OS Construct 17134.137)
Launch date: June 26, 2018
This non-feature replace fixes all kinds of bugs, together with a efficiency situation on Home windows Blended Actuality that occurred on some laptops with hybrid graphics adapters, such because the Floor Ebook 2, and one other by which the Video Settings HDR streaming calibration slider stopped working because of a battle with the panel brightness depth settings configured by some OEMs.
The traditional, security-challenged SMBv1 protocol additionally has a repair for a bug by which customers obtained the “An invalid argument was equipped” error message when accessing recordsdata or working applications from a shared folder utilizing the protocol. The discharge additionally fixes a bug by which media content material beforehand generated by Media Heart didn’t play after the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace was put in. There have been greater than a dozen different minor bugs squashed as properly.
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KB4284835 (OS Construct 17134.112)
Launch date: June 12, 2018
This replace addresses quite a lot of points, together with a number of safety issues. It fixes an issue that stops the GameBar from launching and likewise provides help for the SameSite cookie internet customary to Microsoft Edge and Web Explorer. Amongst different adjustments, it additionally addresses a problem by which some methods began as much as a black display. That occurred as a result of earlier updates to Home windows 10 model 1803 had been incompatible with particular variations of PC tune-up utilities after set up.
The replace additionally gives protections for an extra subclass of speculative execution facet channel vulnerabilities often known as Speculative Retailer Bypass (CVE-2018-3639). The protections aren’t enabled by default. IT directors who need to flip them on for the Home windows consumer ought to comply with the directions in KB4073119. For Home windows Server steerage, comply with the directions in KB4072698. This ought to be performed along with the mitigations already launched for Spectre Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754).
The discharge additionally consists of safety updates to Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft scripting engine, Home windows Desktop Bridge, Home windows apps, Home windows shell, Home windows kernel, Home windows Server, Home windows storage and filesystems, Home windows wi-fi networking, distant code execution, and Home windows virtualization and kernel.
There’s a identified situation on this replace, by which some customers working Home windows 10 model 1803 could obtain an error “An invalid argument was equipped” when accessing recordsdata or working applications from a shared folder utilizing the SMBv1 protocol. To work round the issue, allow SMBv2 or SMBv3 on each the SMB server and the SMB consumer, as described in KB2696547.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4338548 (OS Construct 17134.83)
Launch date: June 5, 2018
This extraordinarily minor replace fixes a single bug by which 2017 and 2018 variations of Intuit QuickBooks Desktop couldn’t run in multi-user mode on Home windows 10 model 1803 units.
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KB4100403 (OS Construct 17134.81)
Launch date: Could 23, 2018
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one by which Web Explorer may trigger communication between internet employees to fail in sure asynchronous eventualities with a number of visits to an online web page, and one other that brought about Home windows Hiya enrollment to fail on {hardware} with dGPUs.
There are a number of identified points with the replace, together with one by which some customers working Home windows 10 model 1803 could obtain an error “An invalid argument was equipped” when accessing recordsdata or working applications from a shared folder utilizing the SMBv1 protocol.
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KB4103721 (OS Construct 17134.48)
Launch date: Could 8, 2018
This replace fixes a number of minor bugs, closes safety holes and introduces no new options. Amongst different fixes, it addresses one which causes some units to cease responding or working when utilizing functions reminiscent of Cortana or Chrome after putting in the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace. And safety updates are included for Home windows Server, Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Microsoft scripting engine, Home windows app platform and frameworks, Home windows kernel, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows storage and filesystems, HTML assist and Home windows Hyper-V.
The replace has one identified situation – when some units with Intel SSD 600p Collection or Intel SSD Professional 6000p Collection laborious disks try and improve to the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace, they could repeatedly enter a UEFI display after restart or cease working. Microsoft is working with Intel and {hardware} companions to establish and block units with Intel SSD 600p Collection or Intel SSD Professional 6000p Collection from putting in the April 2018 Replace. It is also engaged on a repair that can enable these units to finally set up the replace.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace (model 1803)
Launch date: April 30, 2018
Model 1803, known as the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace, is the main replace to Home windows 10 that preceded the October 2018 Replace. Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new for customers in it. (For extra particulars, see our full assessment.)
- A very powerful new function is Timeline, which helps you to assessment and resume actions and open recordsdata you’ve began in your PC, or another Home windows PCs you may have. It additionally tracks what you’ve performed on iOS and Android units in the event you set up Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana on them and are logged in. It exhibits an inventory of actions day-to-day for as much as 30 days. Every exercise exhibits up as a big tile, with the file title and doc title or URL and web site title throughout it, and the title of the applying or app that created it throughout the highest. Click on any exercise to reopen it. (Be aware that at current, Timeline solely tracks actions in sure Microsoft applications such because the Edge browser and Workplace functions.)
- The brand new Diagnostic Knowledge Viewer is supported, which Microsoft is designed to allow you to see the “diagnostic information collected out of your Home windows units, how it’s used, and to offer you elevated management over that information.” Nevertheless, the knowledge is offered in such a posh, technical means that even programmers will doubtless have a troublesome time understanding it. The viewer isn’t constructed instantly into the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace. As an alternative, you must obtain it from the Microsoft Retailer.
- The My Individuals function now enables you to pin as much as 10 contacts on the Home windows taskbar. Beforehand, you might solely pin as much as three.
- Microsoft Edge will get a number of minor tweaks, together with a revamped Hub, the power to mute auto-playing audio in tabs, and a forms-filler for web-based kinds.
- The Pocket book function of Cortana will get a brand new, cleaner interface for its Pocket book. It now has two tabs, Organizer and Handle Abilities. The Organizer makes it simpler to create lists and set reminders. The Handle Abilities tab enables you to add “abilities” to Cortana, reminiscent of controlling your house and its home equipment, connecting Cortana to music providers reminiscent of Spotify, monitoring your health and extra.
- You get extra management over app permissions, reminiscent of whether or not they can entry your digital camera, location and contacts.
What IT must know: IT workers ought to concentrate on these options which might be new within the Home windows 10 April 2018 Replace:
- Home windows 10 Skilled now will get the Home windows Defender Utility Guard, which protects Microsoft Edge. There’s additionally a brand new function within the software guard that lets customers obtain recordsdata inside Edge as an alternative of on to the working system, as a solution to enhance safety.
- There are new insurance policies for Group Coverage and Cell Machine Administration (MDM) that may higher management how Supply Optimization is used for Home windows Replace and Home windows Retailer app updates. You may as well now monitor Supply Optimization utilizing Home windows Analytics.
- Home windows AutoPilot additionally will get a tweak that lets IT ensure that insurance policies, settings and apps are provisioned on units earlier than customers start utilizing them.
- Home windows will get the Linux
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utilities for downloading recordsdata and extracting .tar archives constructed instantly into Home windows. Home windows additionally now natively helps Unix sockets (AF_UNIX) with a brand newafunix.sys
kernel driver. That can make it simpler to port software program to Home windows from Linux in addition to from different Unix-like working methods. - There are a bunch of enhancements to the Home windows Subsystem for Linux, which helps you to run quite a lot of Linux distributions on Home windows 10. Linux functions can run within the background, some launch settings for Linux distributions could be personalized, and Linux functions have been given entry to serial units. The brand new Unix sockets report is offered for the Home windows Subsystem for Linux in addition to Home windows itself.
- The Home windows 10 Professional for Workstations model of Home windows 10 will get a brand new energy scheme known as Final Efficiency it’s just for desktop PCs, not these that may be powered by batteries. As well as, Home windows 10 Professional for Workstations now not ships with video games like Sweet Crush or different comparable consumer-focused apps. As an alternative, it options enterprise- and business-related apps.
- Directors have been given the facility to configure an enterprise’s PCs to run customized scripts throughout function updates, which can make configuration and deployment simpler.
For extra particulars, see the Microsoft weblog submit “Making IT easier with a contemporary office.”
Updates to the Fall Creators Replace (model 1709)
KB4093105 (OS Construct 16299.402)
Launch date: April 23, 2018
This replace fixes three dozen minor bugs and points and introduces no new options. Amongst different fixes, it addresses one which removes user-pinned folders or tiles from the Begin menu in some circumstances, and one other that causes Skype and Xbox to cease working.
The replace has one identified situation — it studies that KB4054517 failed to put in due to error 0x80070643, although the set up was profitable. If you wish to confirm the set up and ensure aren’t any further updates obtainable, choose Test for Updates. Microsoft is engaged on a decision to the issue and can situation a repair in an upcoming Home windows replace.
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KB4093112 (OS Construct 16299.371)
Launch date: April 10, 2018
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs and points and plugs a lot of safety holes. Amongst different fixes, it addresses one which causes an entry violation in Web Explorer when it runs on the Microsoft Utility Virtualization platform. It additionally fixes a problem that may trigger the App-V service to cease engaged on an RDS server that hosts many customers. There are additionally updates to Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Home windows kpp platform and frameworks, Microsoft scripting engine, Home windows graphics, Home windows Server, Home windows kernel, Home windows datacenter networking, Home windows wi-fi networking, Home windows virtualization and Kernel, and Home windows Hyper-V.
The replace has quite a lot of points. In a single, after it’s put in, customers could expertise sudden panning or scrolling in sure apps whereas utilizing the pen. In one other, Home windows Replace Historical past studies that KB4054517 failed to put in due to error 0x80070643.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4089848 (OS Construct 16299.334)
Launch date: March 22, 2018
This non-security updates fixes quite a lot of minor bugs and points however affords no new options. Amongst different points, it fixes an issue by which Bluetooth units didn’t obtain information after a restart, and issues Microsoft Edge had in rendering PDF paperwork with backgrounds created utilizing numerous third-party publishing instruments. It additionally fastened a problem with the press-and-hold function when utilizing a pen in Pill mode, and one other that brought about screens to disconnect after a pc woke from Sleep.
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KB4088776 (OS Construct 16299.309)
Launch date: March 13, 2018
This replace fixes quite a lot of bugs and closes a number of safety holes. It fixes an issue by which pinch and zoom gestures don’t work on some {hardware} when utilizing Web Explorer, and one other one by which Web Explorer turns into unresponsive in sure eventualities when a Browser Helper Object is put in. It additionally fixes a bug by which media and different functions change into unresponsive or fail when upgrading graphics drivers, and one by which after putting in KB4090913, the Blended Actuality Portal didn’t initialize.
The replace additionally consists of safety updates to Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows Desktop Bridge, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Shell, Home windows MSXML, Machine Guard, Home windows Hyper-V, Home windows Installer, and the Microsoft Scripting Engine.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4090913 (OS Construct 16299.251)
Launch date: March 5, 2018
This replace fixes a big bug and provides no new options. The bug was one by which some USB units and onboard units, together with built-in laptop computer cameras, keyboards, or mice, stopped working. It occurred when the Home windows Replace servicing stack incorrectly skipped putting in newer variations of important drivers within the cumulative replace and uninstalled the presently energetic drivers.
The present replace has quite a lot of identified points, together with that some units could fail to start out after putting in it and return the error message INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. See Microsoft’s instructed workarounds.
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KB4074588 (OS Construct 16299.248)
Launch date: February 13, 2018
This February 2018 “Patch Tuesday” replace fixes all kinds of bugs, provides no new options and affords a a number of safety updates. Amongst different bugs dealt with, it fixes a problem in Web Explorer the place urgent the delete key inserted a brand new line in enter bins in an software. It additionally updates time zone data and fixes a bug that brought about delays when switching keyboard languages utilizing Alt+Shift. There are a variety of identified points with the replace, together with one by which Home windows Replace Historical past incorrectly studies that KB4054517 failed to put in.
The patch additionally consists of safety updates to Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Microsoft Home windows Search element, Home windows Kernel, Home windows Authentication, Machine Guard, Widespread Log File System driver, and the Home windows storage and file methods.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4058258 (OS Construct 16299.214)
Launch date: January 31, 2018
This minor non-feature replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one by which colours are distorted when the system is linked to shows that help the large shade gamut, and one other by which delays are brought about when switching keyboard languages utilizing Alt+Shift. The replace additionally consists of unnamed safety protections for 32-bit (x86) variations of the Home windows 10 Fall Creators Replace. There are a number of identified points with the replace, together with that after its set up, “Home windows Replace Historical past studies that KB4054517 failed to put in due to error 0x80070643.”
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KB4073291 (OS Construct 16299.201)
Launch date: January 18, 2018
This replace is just for PCs with the 32-bit (x86) model of Home windows 10 1709 which have already put in the January 3, 2018 replace (KB4056892, OS Construct 16299.192). Microsoft has offered no details about this replace past an inventory of recordsdata which might be in it (CSV obtain) and that it “gives further protections for 32-Bit (x86) model of Home windows 10 1709.” Nevertheless, it notes that there are a variety of identified points with the replace, together with that “Home windows Replace Historical past studies that KB4054517 failed to put in due to Error 0x80070643.”
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KB4056892 (OS Construct 16299.192)
Launch date: January 3, 2018
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one by which occasion logs cease receiving occasions when a most file dimension coverage is utilized to the channel. It additionally fixes a number of Microsoft Edge-related points together with one by which printing an Workplace On-line doc in Microsoft Edge fails and one other by which Microsoft Edge stops responding for as much as 3 seconds whereas displaying content material from a software program rendering path.
Additionally included are safety updates for Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Home windows 10, .NET Framework and extra. For particulars see the January 2018 Safety Updates Launch Notes.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4054517 (OS Construct 16299.125)
Launch date: December 12, 2017
This replace fixes quite a lot of minor bugs, together with one by which Home windows Defender Machine Guard and Utility Management block some functions from working, even in Audit-Solely Enforcement Mode. It additionally fixes quite a lot of points with updating time zone data.
Additionally included are 34 safety updates to the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Edge and Home windows Server. Probably the most notable of them are fixes to 2 distant code execution bugs within the Microsoft Malware Safety Engine. For particulars concerning the two distant execution bugs, see CVE-2017-11937 and CVE-2017-11940.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4051963 (OS Construct 16299.98)
Launch date: November 30, 2017
This minor, non-feature replace consists of quite a lot of bug fixes. It addresses a number of issues with Web Explorer, together with a script-related situation that brought about the browser to cease working in some circumstances, and one other by which kinds submissions didn’t work correctly. It additionally fastened efficiency issues when customers run full-screen Microsoft DirectX 9 video games and functions. And it fixes a problem by which consumer picks for Suggestions Frequency in Settings > Privateness > Suggestions & diagnostics weren’t saved.
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KB4048955 (OS Construct 16299.64)
Launch date: November 14, 2017
This primary “Patch Tuesday” launch for the Fall Creators Replace incorporates no new options, however has quite a lot of bug fixes and safety patches. It fixes an issue that brought about the Blended Actuality Portal to cease responding on launch and one the place black screens appeared when switching between windowed and full-screen modes when enjoying some Microsoft DirectX video games. It additionally fixes a problem by which software tiles had been lacking from the Begin menu. Quite a lot of different issues have been solved as properly.
Fifty-three safety vulnerabilities have additionally been additionally fastened, with 20 of them rated as important. Safety holes have been patched all through Home windows, together with in Web Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Home windows, Microsoft Workplace, ASP.NET Core, and Chakra Core.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4043961 (OS Construct 16299.19)
Launch date: October 17, 2017
This very minor, non-feature replace addresses just a few small points, together with a bug by which, after apps are eliminated, they’re reinstalled on each restart, logoff and login. There are additionally safety updates to Home windows kernel-mode drivers, Microsoft Graphics Element, Web Explorer, Home windows kernel, Microsoft Home windows Search Element, Home windows TPM, Home windows NTLM, Machine Guard, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows Wi-fi Networking, Microsoft Home windows DNS, Home windows Server, Microsoft JET Database Engine, and the Home windows SMB Server.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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Home windows 10 Fall Creators Replace (model 1709)
Launch date: October 17, 2017
Model 1709, known as the Home windows 10 Fall Creators Replace, is the main replace to Home windows 10 that preceded the April 2018 Replace. Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new for customers in it. (For extra particulars, see our full assessment.)
- OneDrive will get a brand new function known as Recordsdata On-Demand that offers you entry to all your OneDrive recordsdata on each machine, with out having to obtain them first. You’ll be capable to see all of the recordsdata you may have in OneDrive, even when they’re solely within the cloud and never in your PC. Icons inform you that are native and that are within the cloud. Simply open the file, and if it’s not in your PC, it will get downloaded.
- The brand new My Individuals function enables you to pin three contacts to the Home windows taskbar after which talk with them immediately with out having to open a separate app reminiscent of Skype or Mail. You may as well click on to see an inventory of all communications between them and also you at a look.
- Now you can ship internet hyperlinks out of your iOS or Android machine to your PC and have them open in Microsoft Edge.
- Cortana will get a number of new options, together with displaying leads to a scrollable flyout panel, so that you don’t need to launch an online browser.
- Microsoft Edge will get some minor enhancements, together with higher Favorites dealing with and the power to mark up PDFs and e-books.
- Safety has been beefed up, together with the addition of Home windows Defender Exploit Guard, which incorporates intrusion guidelines and insurance policies to guard in opposition to quite a lot of threats, notably zero-day exploits. A brand new anti-ransomware function known as Managed Folder Entry has additionally been added; it lets solely accepted apps have entry to Home windows system recordsdata and folders.
- New privateness options embody the power to assessment the sorts of units and providers apps from the Microsoft Retailer need entry to earlier than you obtain them.
- The replace incorporates Microsoft’s new design system and tips, known as Fluent Design. General, transitions are smoother, and there are refined adjustments to the transparency impact.
What IT must know: IT workers ought to concentrate on these options which might be new within the Home windows 10 Fall Creators Replace:
- The notoriously insecure SMBv1 networking protocol, exploited in current ransomware assaults together with WannaCry and Petya, received’t be included on clear installs of the Home windows 10 Fall Creators Replace, however SMBv1 elements will stay in the event you do in-place upgrades on PCs that have already got the element put in.
- Home windows Defender Superior Menace Safety (ATP), a collection of instruments launched in Home windows 10 that helps enterprise prospects defend their customers and networks in opposition to threats and reply to assaults, is being beefed up. Amongst different issues, it should run on the Home windows Server OS.
- ATP can be a part of Home windows Defender Utility Guard for Microsoft Edge, obtainable just for Home windows 10 Enterprise Version. It protects in opposition to malware assaults by confining visits to unknown or untrusted web sites to a digital machine, in order that assaults can’t unfold to a PC or the community.
- Home windows AutoPilot, which improves self-service deployments of Home windows 10 PCs, will get quite a lot of tweaks, together with higher cellular machine administration (MDM) providers.
- Home windows Analytics’ new Machine Well being software gathers data on how PCs carry out in an enterprise, and primarily based on that, identifies potential points and descriptions steps to resolve them.
- Enterprises get extra management over what sort of data Home windows Analytics gathers for the IT workers. As a way to enhance customers’ privateness, IT workers can restrict the knowledge collected by Home windows Analytics to solely diagnostic information.
For extra particulars about new options for IT, see “What’s new in Home windows 10, model 1709 IT Professional content material,” “Asserting end-to-end security measures in Home windows 10” and “Delivering the Trendy IT promise with Home windows 10” from Microsoft.
Updates to the Creators Replace (model 1703)
KB4041676 (OS Construct 15063.674)
Launch date: October 10, 2017
This non-feature replace addresses all kinds of points, together with ones associated to safety. It fixes a bug that received’t enable some video games from downloading from the MIcrosoft Retailer. The construct additionally fixes a problem by which some Common Home windows Platform (UWP) apps and Centennial apps (.NET and Win32-based Home windows functions which have been packaged to be printed to the Microsoft Retailer) have a grey icon and show the error message “This app can’t open” on launch.
As well as, safety updates are included for a lot of elements of Home windows, together with Microsoft Home windows Search Element, Home windows kernel-mode drivers, Microsoft Graphics Element, Web Explorer, Home windows kernel, Microsoft Edge, Home windows Authentication, Home windows TPM, Machine Guard, Home windows Wi-fi Networking, Home windows Storage and Filesystems, Microsoft Home windows DNS, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows Server, Home windows Subsystem for Linux, Microsoft JET Database Engine, and the Home windows SMB Server.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4040724 (OS Construct 15063.632)
Launch date: September 25, 2017
This non-feature replace addresses two very minor points: Mobile connectivity and reliability have been improved, and efficiency issues with Microsoft Edge that had been launched in KB40387888 have been resolved.
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KB4038788 (OS Construct 15063.608)
Launch date: Sept. 12, 2017
This non-feature replace addresses all kinds of miscellaneous minor points, together with one the place some machines fail to load wi-fi WAN units after they resume from Sleep, and one other the place spoolsv.exe stops working. Additionally addressed is an issue by which the choice to affix Azure AAD is typically unavailable throughout the out-of-box expertise, and one other by which clicking the buttons on Home windows Motion Heart notifications leads to no motion being taken.
What IT must know
This launch consists of safety updates to Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows kernel-mode drivers, Home windows shell, Microsoft Uniscribe, Microsoft Edge, Machine Guard, Home windows TPM, Web Explorer, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Home windows Hyper-V, Home windows kernel and Home windows Virtualization. As a result of it’s a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4034674 (OS Construct 15063.540)
Launch date: Aug. 8, 2017
This non-feature replace addresses quite a lot of minor points, primarily geared toward IT. Two fixes are for cellular units: One by which the insurance policies provisioned utilizing Cell Machine Administration (MDM) don’t take priority over insurance policies set by provisioning packages, however ought to, and one other by which an entry violation within the Cell Machine Supervisor Enterprise function causes cease errors. Additionally addressed is a matter by which the Web site to Zone Task Checklist group coverage (GPO) was not set on machines when it was enabled.
There are additionally safety updates for a lot of Home windows options and providers, together with Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Home windows Search Element, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Home windows PDF Library, Home windows Hyper-V, Home windows Server, Home windows kernel-mode drivers, Home windows Subsystem for Linux, Home windows shell, Widespread Log File System Driver, Web Explorer, and the Microsoft JET Database Engine.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace.
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KB4032188 (OS Construct 15063.502)
Launch date: July 31, 2017
This non-feature replace addresses quite a lot of minor points and bugs, together with one by which Win32 functions have issues working with numerous Bluetooth LE units together with head monitoring units, a reliability situation with launching the Settings app whereas an software is utilizing the digital camera, and a bug by which video playback artifacts seem throughout transitions from portrait to panorama on cellular units.
What IT must know: A number of minor points addressed on this replace have an effect on IT, together with the Cell Machine Supervisor Enterprise function not permitting headsets to work accurately, and a bug that may trigger a service utilizing a Managed Service Account (MSA) to fail to hook up with a website after an computerized password replace.
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KB4025342 (OS Construct 15063.483)
Launch date: July 11, 2017
This safety replace (a Patch Tuesday launch) fixes 54 vulnerabilities in Home windows 10, Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Microsoft Workplace and Microsoft Change. Nineteen of the vulnerabilities had been rated as important, 32 as vital and three as average.
The important bugs embody six distant code execution ones, together with one for Microsoft’s HoloLens combined actuality head-mounted show that’s presently obtainable solely to builders. It allowed the machine to be hacked “by merely receiving WiFi packets, apparently with none type of authentication in any respect,” in Microsoft’s phrases.
Microsoft Edge obtained patches for 13 important scripting engine reminiscence corruption vulnerabilities, together with one by which an attacker might achieve the identical consumer rights as the present consumer.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace. Along with the patches for Home windows 10 Creators Replace are safety patches for Home windows Server 2016 / Home windows 10 Anniversary Replace.
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KB4022716 (OS Construct 15063.447)
Launch date: June 27, 2017
This non-security replace kills greater than three dozen minor bugs. Amongst them are one which causes the Digicam app to make use of plenty of reminiscence on cellular platforms, which reduces battery life. The replace additionally improves Bluetooth connectivity with wearable units.
What IT must know: A few of the bugs have an effect on networks, together with one by which community printers could fail when utilizing the printer vendor’s setup software program on machines with lower than 4GB of RAM. Putting in the printers utilizing the Settings app or from Units and Printers in Management Panel will guarantee they’re put in correctly. As well as, the replace fixes a problem which prevented customers from connecting to the Terminal Providers Gateway (TSG) working on Home windows Server 2008 SP2 after it has been upgraded to the Creators Replace, with the end result that customers weren’t capable of entry Distant Desktop Providers or distant apps.
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KB4022725 (OS Builds 15063.413 and 15063.414)
Launch date: June 13, 2017
This safety replace closes dozens of safety holes, together with two distant code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-8464, which has similarities to Stuxnet, and CVE-2017-8543, which is a wormlike assault).
It additionally fixes quite a lot of bugs, together with one by which a consumer could need to press the house bar to dismiss the lock display to log in, even after the go browsing is authenticated utilizing a companion machine.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized instantly, particularly as a result of a number of of the safety holes are being actively utilized by attackers. (Get extra data about KB4022725.)
KB4020102 (OS Construct 15063.332)
Launch date: Could 25, 2017
This non-security replace fixes all kinds of bugs however affords no new options. Amongst different points, it fixes an issue when community printers could fail to put in utilizing the printer vendor’s setup software program on PCs with lower than 4GB of RAM. It additionally fixes a number of issues with Web Explorer, together with one the place non-administrator customers can’t set up ActiveX controls. (Get extra data about KB4020102.)
KB4016871 (OS Builds 15063.296 and 15063.297)
Launch date: Could 9, 2017
This can be a safety replace that additionally consists of minor bug fixes, however no new options. The safety updates are for Microsoft Edge, Web Explorer, Microsoft Graphics Element, Home windows SMB Server, Home windows COM, Microsoft Scripting Engine, the Home windows kernel, Home windows Server, and the .NET Framework. Among the many bugs fastened are one by which autochk.exe can randomly skip drive checks and never repair information corruptions, which might result in information loss.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace. (Get extra data about KB4016871.)
KB4016240 (OS Construct 15063.250)
Launch date: April 25, 2017
This non-security replace squashes all kinds of bugs however consists of no new options. It fixes a bug that brought about intermittent logout from internet functions and one other that made methods unresponsive in sure conditions after working Direct3D apps in full-screen unique mode. Earlier to this patch, Home windows Kinds configuration points brought about antivirus functions to cease working at startup; they now work.
What IT must know: Two of the bugs fastened with this launch are one by which some VMs skilled community connectivity loss whereas provisioning IP addresses and one other that prevented Group Coverage settings from disabling the lock display. (Get extra data about KB4016240.)
KB4015583 (OS Construct 15063.138)
Launch date: April 11, 2017
This safety replace consists of just a few minor bug fixes and no new options. It updates safety for Scripting Engine, libjpeg image-processing library, Hyper-V, Home windows kernel-mode drivers, Adobe Kind Supervisor Font Driver, Web Explorer, Graphics Element, Lively Listing Federation Providers, .NET Framework, Light-weight Listing Entry Protocol, Microsoft Edge and Home windows OLE. As well as, it fixes an issue with updating time zone data.
What IT must know: As a result of this can be a safety replace, it ought to be utilized comparatively quickly. Over the subsequent few weeks, verify for studies about problematic points, and if all appears properly, apply the replace. (Get extra data about KB4015583.)
KB4016251 (OS Construct 15063.13)
Launch date: April 5, 2017
This non-security replace fixes a couple of very minor bugs and has no new options. It repairs an issue that brought about the Floor USB: Bluetooth radio to typically fail throughout hibernate/resume, and fixes a problem by which a virus safety product driver set up would set off a system crash on Home windows construct 15060 configured with DeviceGuard. (Get extra data about KB4016251.)
Home windows 10 Creators Replace (model 1703)
Launch date: April 5, 2017
Model 1703, dubbed the Creators Replace, is the main replace to Home windows 10 that preceded the Fall Creators Replace. Right here’s a fast abstract of what’s new for customers within the Creators Replace. (For extra particulars, see our full assessment.)
- It helps you higher set up the Begin menu by letting you set a number of tiles for apps right into a single folder — for instance, you possibly can group all social media apps into one folder.
- Customers are given a bit extra management over the replace course of: They’ll delay an replace for 3 days and preserve delaying it in three-day increments, or select particular instances for updates to put in.
- The Edge browser has gotten some enhancements, together with having Flash disabled by default for safety causes and supporting the ePub and PDF codecs for studying books and different content material.
- Microsoft added some 3D and digital actuality options, together with working HoloLens digital actuality and combined actuality apps for the primary time, and introducing a Paint 3D app for creating 3D objects.
- System settings that beforehand had been in a number of areas have been consolidated into the Settings app.
- There’s a brand new all-in-one safety dashboard known as Home windows Defender Safety Heart that consolidates many safety and laptop well being settings and data.
- New gaming options embody streaming gaming periods over the web; a Sport Mode to enhance gaming efficiency; and a Sport bar to allow you to document your gameplay, take screenshots and carry out games-related duties.
- The Cortana private assistant will get a couple of modest additions, together with scheduling month-to-month reminders and serving to you arrange units.
What IT must know: IT workers ought to concentrate on these options which might be new within the Home windows 10 Creators Replace:
- Safety has been improved in a lot of methods, together with including new options and insights into Home windows Defender Superior Menace Safety (ATP) to higher examine and reply to community threats. Among the many new options are sensors in reminiscence, higher intelligence and improved remediation capabilities.
- A number of new configuration service suppliers (CSPs) obtainable within the Creators Replace let directors handle Home windows 10 units by Cell Machine Administration (MDM) or provisioning packages. The DynamicManagement CSP, as an illustration, can allow or disable sure machine options relying on location, community presence or time.
- New cellular software administration capabilities can defend information on private cellular units with out requiring every machine to be a part of the company MDM.
- The Home windows Configuration Designer (beforehand known as Home windows Imaging and Configuration Designer) consists of new wizards to make it simpler to create provisioning packages, together with for desktop units, Home windows cellular units, Floor Hub units, HoloLens units and kiosk units.
- Enterprise safety directors get a extra complete documentation library for Home windows Defender Antivirus.
- If an enterprise-wide replace coverage hasn’t been configured, customers with Home windows Professional, Home windows Enterprise or Home windows Training editions have far more management over how Home windows updates. With the Creators Replace, customers can now routinely delay cumulative month-to-month updates for as much as 30 days, and may delay function updates by as much as 12 months.
For extra particulars about new options for IT, see the Microsoft weblog posts “Home windows 10 Creators Replace advances safety and best-in-class fashionable IT instruments” and “What’s new in Home windows 10, model 1703 IT professional content material.”