July 26, 2022—KB5015878 (OS Builds 19042.1865, 19043.1865, and 19044.1865) Preview
Highlights
New! Gives you the option to receive important notifications when focus assist is on. Focus assist is like a do not disturb mode that hides notifications.
New! Restores functionality for Windows Autopilot deployment scenarios that are affected by the security mitigation for hardware reuse. This update removes the one-time use restriction for self-deploying mode (SDM) and pre-provisioning (PP). This update also re-enables any User Principal Name (UPN) display in user-driven mode (UDM) deployments for approved manufacturers.
Addresses an issue that causes certain docking stations to lose internet connectivity when waking from Sleep mode.
Adds functionality that improves the OS upgrade experience.
Addresses an issue that might cause consecutive video clip playback to fail in games that use DX12.
Addresses an issue that affects certain games that use the XAudio API to play sound effects.
Addresses an issue that affects the height of the Search box when you use multiple monitors that have different resolutions.
Addresses an issue that prevents certain troubleshooting tools from opening.
Improvements
Note: To view the list of addressed issues, click or tap the OS name to expand the collapsible section.
Windows 10, version 21H2
Important: Use EKB KB5003791 to update to Windows 10, version 21H2.
This non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:
This build includes all the improvements from Windows 10, version 20H2.
No additional issues were documented for this release.
Windows 10, version 21H1
Important: Use EKB KB5000736 to update to Windows 10, version 21H1.
This non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:
This build includes all the improvements from Windows 10, version 20H2.
No additional issues were documented for this release.
Windows Server, version 20H2
Important: Use EKB KB4562830 to update to Windows 10, version 20H2.
This non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:
New! Provides the ability for you to consent to receive important notifications when focus assist is on.
Reduces the overhead of resource contention in high input/output operations per second (IOPS) scenarios that have many threads contending on a single file.
Improves the reliability of a push-button reset after an OS upgrade.
Addresses an issue that makes the tenant restrictions event logging channel inaccessible if you remove the EN-US language pack.
Addresses an issue that prevents certain troubleshooting tools from opening.
Updates the Remove-Item cmdlet to properly interact with Microsoft OneDrive folders.
Addresses an issue that causes certain docking stations to lose internet connectivity when waking from Sleep mode.
Adds functionality that caches additional audio endpoint information to improve the OS upgrade experience.
Addresses an issue that might cause consecutive video clip playback to fail in games that use DX12.
Addresses an issue that affects certain games that use the XAudio API to play sound effects.
Addresses an issue that causes port mapping conflicts for containers.
Addresses an issue that causes Code Integrity to continue trusting a file after the file has been modified.
Addresses an issue that might cause Windows to stop working when you enable Windows Defender Application Control with the Intelligent Security Graph feature turned on.
Addresses an issue that affects the height of the Search box when you use multiple monitors that have different resolutions as measured dots per inch (DPI).
Addresses an issue that prevents the Storage Migration Service (SMS) from completing inventory on servers that have many shares. The system logs error event 2509 in Microsoft-Windows-StorageMigrationService/Admin channel (ErrorId=-2146233088/ErrorMessage="Invalid table id").
Addresses an issue that causes the Windows profile service to fail sporadically. The failure might occur when signing in. The error message is, “gpsvc service failed to sign in. Access denied”.
If you installed earlier updates, only the new updates contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.
Windows 10 servicing stack update - 19042.1852, 19043.1852, and 19044.1852
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.
July 26, 2022—KB5015878 (OS Builds 19042.1865, 19043.1865, and 19044.1865) Preview
Microsoft has published KB5015878 (OS Builds 19042.1865, 19043.1865, and 19044.1865) preview for Windows Server version 20H2, all editions Windows 10 Enterprise Multi-Session version 20H2, Windows 10 Enterprise and Education version 20H2, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise version 20H2, Windows 10 on Surface Hub Windows 10 version 21H1, and all editions Windows 10 version 21H2.
