[German]Microsoft has released optional, cumulative (preview) updates on April 25, 2022 (D-Week). These are intended to correct various bugs in Windows 10, Windows 11 and in the corresponding Windows Server versions. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10 (20H2-21H2) and the Windows Server versions in question.
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The information about the updates can be found in the Windows 10 update history page. It should be noted that these updates are so-called preview or preview updates. These are optional and must be manually triggered for download and installation by default. Thanks to Hans T. for the hint via mail.
Update KB5011831 for Windows 10 20H2-21H2/Server 20H2
Cumulative Preview Update KB5011831 is available for Windows 10 20H2 through version 21H2, as well as Windows Server 20H2. It raises the builds to 19042.1682 (version 20H2), 19043.1682 (version 21H1) and 19044.1682 (version 21H2). Here is the list of changes and new features referred to as highlights:
- Updates an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working when you copy and paste text using an Input Method Editor (IME).
- Updates an issue that displays a black screen for some users when they sign in or sign out.
- Updates an issue that might cause a Microsoft OneDrive file to lose focus after you rename it and press the Enter key.
- Updates an issue that causes the news and interest panel to appear when you haven't clicked, tapped, or moused over it.
- Updates an issue that prevents you from changing a password that has expired when you sign in to a Windows device.
Interesting is the mentioned fix of the login bug that leads to a black screen after login for some users. In addition, Microsoft continues to fix the problem of not being able to set an expired password for Windows login. I had addressed the issue in March 2022 in the post Windows Server 2019: Update KB5011551 causes password loop. As of April 12, 2022, fixes have been rolled out to all versions of Windows. However, one seems to need to keep patching. Below is the full list of fixed bugs and changes. The fix for a boot delay of up to 40 minutes for point-of-sale terminals is also mentioned there (this was already corrected for Windows 10 V1909 on 4/21/2022, see links at the end of the article).
- New! Adds improvements for servicing the Secure Boot component of Windows.
- Changes the timeout for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) registration from 60 minutes to 90 minutes for hybrid Azure AD-joined Autopilot scenarios. This also addresses a race condition that causes an exception at timeout.
- Addresses an issue that causes a remote desktop session to close or a reconnection to stop responding while waiting on the accessibility shortcut handler (sethc.exe).
- Addresses an issue in which certain Point of Sale terminals experience occasional OS startup delays during restart of up to 40 minutes.
- Addresses an issue that incorrectly returns Execution Policy settings from the registry.
- Addresses an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working when you copy and paste text using an Input Method Editor (IME).
- Addresses an issue that displays a black screen for some users when they sign in or sign out.
- Addresses an issue that causes Kerberos authentication to fail, and the error is "0xc0030009 (RPC_NT_NULL_REF_POINTER)". This occurs when a client machine attempts to use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to another machine while Remote Credential Guard is enabled.
- Addresses an issue that prevents you from changing a password that has expired when you sign in to a Windows device.
- Addresses an issue that might cause Windows to stop working when you apply a Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policy that doesn't require a restart.
- Addresses an issue that might fail to copy the security portion of a Group Policy to a machine.
- Addresses an issue that causes the Key Distribution Center (KDC) code to incorrectly return the error message "KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED" during domain controller shutdown.
- Addresses an issue that might prevent graphics processing unit (GPU) load balancing over Remote Desktop from working as intended.
- Addresses an issue that prevents the instantiation of the Microsoft RDP Client Control, version 11 and higher, inside a Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) dialog.
- Addresses an issue that might cause a Microsoft OneDrive file to lose focus after you rename it and press the Enter key.
- Addresses an issue that causes the news and interest panel to appear when you haven't clicked, tapped, or moused over it.
- Addresses an issue that fails to pass the Shift KeyUp event to an application when you use the Korean IME.
- Addresses an issue that might occur when you use Netdom.exe or the Active Directory Domains and Trusts snap-in to list or modify name suffixes routing. These procedures might fail. The error message is, "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service." This issue occurs after installing the January 2022 security update on the primary domain controller emulator (PDCe).
- Addresses an issue that displays the wrong IME mode indicator when the Font Mitigation policy is enabled.
- Addresses an issue that causes the primary domain controller (PDC) of the root domain to generate warning and error events in the System log. This issue occurs when the PDC incorrectly tries to scan outgoing-only trusts.
- Addresses an issue that affects a Server Message Block (SMB) multichannel connection and might generate a 13A or C2 error.
- Addresses an issue that occurs when you map a network drive to a Server Message Block version 1 (SMBv1) share. After restarting the OS, you cannot access that network drive.
- Addresses an issue that causes virtual computer object (VCO) password settings failure on a distributed network name resource.
- Addresses an issue that damages a pool when a Client-Side Caching (CSC) cleanup method fails to delete a resource that was created.
- Addresses an issue that might cause the server to lock up because the nonpaged pool grows and uses up all memory. After a restart, the same issue occurs again when you try to repair the damage.
- Reduces the overhead of resource contention in high input/output operations per second (IOPS) scenarios that have many threads contending on a single file.
The update is optional and is only offered when the user explicitly selects optional updates for installation in the settings page. The update can also be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft Update Catalog. The latest Servicing Stack Update (SSU) is integrated.
Microsoft lists several known issues with this update in support post KB5011831. If in doubt, see the support post for more details. Blog reader Hans T. emailed me the following information about problems.
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Today I had on Windows Update the updates KB5012157 [cumulative preview update .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8] and KB5011831 [the Windows 10 preview update mentioned above]. KB5012157 installed without any issues. The servicing stack 10.0.19041.1677 included in KB5011831 was installed, but the update could not be installed.
Error: 0x8007000d
This happened over and over again on my 3 attempts. Now KB5011831 comes up on Windows Updateagain to download and install.
The error code 0x8007000d stands for ERROR_INVALID_DATA, which does not help so without further information. Here still the hints from the article Check and repair Windows system files and component store could be carried out, in order to exclude a damaged Windows 10. For Windows 7 Microsoft had published this article, which names a missing activation as cause. Otherwise, the only other option is to empty the Update Store or perform an Inplace upgrade (the approaches are outlined in the moderator notes of this Microsoft Answers forum thread). The colleagues at deskmodder.de have already discussed this optional update here since April 15, 2022 (the version for Insiders). Users have reported further problems and bugs there.
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