Microsoft Releases Update Preview KB5022905 For Windows 11 21H2

A few hours ago, for you Windows 10 and Windows 11 users, you might get a new update notification that you can find on the Windows Update page, where the update given is a preview update / optional update which is free for you to install or skip.

For Windows 11 21H2 itself, the update that is presented is update KB5022905 which will change the OS Build to 22000.1641, which along with this update, there are quite a lot of fixes and improvements that are presented, which includes:

• New! This update adds an advanced auto-learning feature for facial recognition.
• This update addresses an issue that affects the Color filters setting. When you select Inverted, the system sets it to Grayscale instead.
• This update addresses an issue that affects IE mode. The text on the status bar is not always visible.
• This update addresses an issue that stops hyperlinks from working in Microsoft Excel.
• This update addresses an issue that affects a certain streaming app. The issue stops video playback after an advertisement plays in the app.
• This update addresses an issue that affects the Appx State Repository. When you remove a user profile, the cleanup is incomplete. Because of this, its database grows as time passes. This growth might cause delays when users sign in to multi-user environments like FSLogix.
• This update affects the United Mexican States. This update supports the government’s daylight saving time change order for 2023.
• This update addresses an issue that affects the Z-order of two maximized windows. A window that is behind another window might appear on top.
• This update addresses an issue that affects AppV. It stops file names from having the correct letter case (uppercase or lowercase).
• This update addresses an issue that affects Microsoft Edge. The issue removes conflicting policies for Microsoft Edge. This happens when you set the MDMWinsOverGPFlag in a Microsoft Intune tenant and Intune detects a policy conflict.
• This update addresses an issue that affects Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Using a provisioning package for bulk provisioning fails.
• This update addresses an issue that affects the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). LSASS might stop responding. This occurs after you run Sysprep on a domain-joined machine.
• This update addresses an issue that affects parity virtual disks. Using Server Manager to make them fail.

Now, as stated in the changelog above, quite a lot of improvements have been presented, one of which includes the LSASS fix which was previously reported to have problems when users tried to run sysprep on the device with domain-joined.

Oh yes, you can get this update yourself on the Settings page > Windows Update > Check for updates, then download and install the KB5022905 update available there, but because this update is a preview update you can freely skip it, where if you do skip this update , all the contents of this update will usually be presented later when it is released tuesday patch in the next month.

via: Microsoft