{"id":39365,"date":"2025-09-23T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=39365"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:00:11","slug":"windows-11-24h2-out-of-band-update-kb5068221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/09\/23\/windows-11-24h2-out-of-band-update-kb5068221\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 24H2: Out-of-Band-Update KB5068221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Windows-klein.jpg\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/23\/windows-11-24h2-out-of-band-update-kb5068221\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for Windows 11 24H2 (as well as the yet-to-be-released Windows 11 25H2) effective September 22, 2025. This out-of-band update fixes a bug in App-V virtualization compatibility that affects Microsoft Office applications. Here are a few details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBlog reader Bolko pointed out in a comment (thank you very much for that) that an out-of-band-update has been released. He wrote: \"Since September 22, 2025, there has been an out-of-band update KB5068221 (Build 26100.6588 and 26200.6588) for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2.\"<\/p>\n<p>The list of Windows 11 updates can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/windows-11-version-24h2-update-history-0929c747-1815-4543-8461-0160d16f15e5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Microsoft website<\/a>. The support page states that the out-of-band update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5068221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB5068221<\/a> is cumulative and contains quality improvements. In addition to the following improvements, it also includes security fixes and improvements from the September 9, 2025 security update (KB5065426):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Virtualization and platform compatibility] Fixed: This update addresses an issue that affects Microsoft Office applications running in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) environments. The failure occurred due to a double handle closure in the AppVEntSubsystems32 or AppVEntSubsystems64 system component.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please note that this out-of-band update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5068221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB5068221<\/a> is not distributed via Windows Update. Those affected can download and install it from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB5068221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Update Catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>Officially, only Windows 11 version 24H2 is listed in support article <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5068221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB5068221<\/a>. However, since Windows 11 25H2 has the same code base and can be activated from 24H2 via an enablement update, the update also applies to this Windows version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/12\/microsoft-security-update-summary-august-12-2025\/\">Microsoft Security Update Summary (August 12, 2025)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/13\/patchday-windows-10-11-updates-august-12-2025\/\">Patchday: Windows 10\/11 Updates (August 12, 2025)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/13\/patchday-windows-server-updates-august-12-2025\/\">Patchday: Windows Server Updates (August 12, 2025)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/14\/patchday-microsoft-office-updates-august-12-2025\/\">Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (August 12, 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/13\/windows-11-24h2-update-kb5063878-causes-installation-error-0x80240069\/\">Windows 11 24H2: Update KB5063878 causes installation error 0x80240069<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/windows-11-24h2-update-kb5063878-wirft-installationsfehler-0x80240069\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/14\/windows-11-24h2-kir-fix-for-wsus-installation-error-0x80240069-with-update-kb5063878\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 11 24H2: KIR fix for WSUS installation error 0x80240069 with update KB5063878<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/windows-11-24h2-update-kb5063878-wirft-installationsfehler-0x80240069\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/15\/windows-11-24h2-update-kb5063878-as-a-re-release-for-wsus-august-14-2025\/\">Windows 11 24H2: Update KB5063878 as a re-release for WSUS (August 14, 2025)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/windows-11-24h2-update-kb5063878-wirft-installationsfehler-0x80240069\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/18\/windows-11-24h2-does-the-aug-2025-update-kb5063878-cause-ssd-errors\/\">Windows 11 24H2: Does the Aug. 2025 update KB5063878 cause SSD errors?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/22\/windows-11-24h2-microsoft-investigates-reports-of-ssd-issues-caused-by-kb5063878\/\">Windows 11 24H2: Microsoft investigates reports of SSD issues caused by KB5063878<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/08\/22\/windows-10-11-aug-2025-updates-cause-streaming-problems\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10\/11: Aug. 2025 updates cause streaming problems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for Windows 11 24H2 (as well as the yet-to-be-released Windows 11 25H2) effective September 22, 2025. This out-of-band update fixes a bug in App-V virtualization compatibility that affects Microsoft Office applications. Here are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/09\/23\/windows-11-24h2-out-of-band-update-kb5068221\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[47,195,2860],"class_list":["post-39365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-windows","tag-issue","tag-update","tag-windows-11-24h2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39366,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39365\/revisions\/39366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}