April 11, 2023—KB5025229 (OS Build 17763.4252)

Highlights 

• This update addresses security issues for your Windows operating system. 

Improvements

This security update includes improvements. When you install this KB:

• New! This update adds many new features and improvements to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. For more information, see Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

• New! This update implements the new Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) as a Windows inbox feature. For more information, see By popular demand: Windows LAPS available now!

• This update affects the Arab Republic of Egypt. The update supports the government’s daylight saving time change order for 2023.

• This update enables onunload events to create pop-up windows in IE Mode.

• This update addresses an issue that affects Microsoft Edge IE mode and pages that use predictive prerendering. Edge IE mode does not support predictive prerendering. Because of this, a page that uses prerendering will load as if it was not in use.

• This update addresses an issue that affects Desired State Configuration. It loses its previously configured options. This occurs if metaconfig.mof is missing.

• This update addresses compatibility issues that affect some printers. These printers use Windows Graphical Device Interface (GDI) printer drivers. These drivers do not completely adhere to GDI specifications.

• This update addresses an issue that affects the Host Networking Service. The service stops working. Because of this, there are traffic interruptions.

• This update addresses an issue that affects Administrator Account Lockout policies. GPResult and Resultant Set of Policy did not report them.

• This update addresses an issue that affects MySQL commands. The commands fail on Windows Xenon containers.

• This update addresses an issue that affects repair storage jobs. The jobs are suspended. This occurs after two physical disks in two different rack-level fault domains (three fault domain in total) lose communication.

If you installed earlier updates, only the new updates contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.

For more information about security vulnerabilities, please refer to the new Security Update Guide website and the April 2023 Security Updates.

Windows 10 servicing stack update - 17763.4121

This update makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates. Servicing stack updates (SSU) ensure that you have a robust and reliable servicing stack so that your devices can receive and install Microsoft updates. 

How to get this update

Before installing this update

Microsoft now combines the latest servicing stack update (SSU) for your operating system with the latest cumulative update (LCU). SSUs improve the reliability of the update process to mitigate potential issues while installing the LCU. For general information about SSUs, see Servicing stack updates and Servicing Stack Updates (SSU): Frequently Asked Questions. 

Prerequisite:

You must install the August 10, 2021 SSU (KB5005112) before installing the LCU. 

Install this update

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for cumulative update 5025229.

For a list of the files that are provided in the servicing stack update, download the file information for the SSU - version 17763.4121.