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Release Date:

1/15/2019

Version:

OS Build 17134.556

Improvements and fixes

This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

  • Addresses an issue in Microsoft Edge that fails to trigger the focusin event if the focus event listener of an element shifts focus to another element.

  • Addresses an issue that prevents sharing and timeline features and roaming settings from working for accounts that use Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

  • Addresses an issue that may prevent some applications from displaying the Help (F1) window correctly.

  • Addresses an issue that causes power options to appear on the Windows security screen when the per user group policy to hide power options is set.

  • Addresses an issue that prevents links for certain compressed file formats from resolving.

  • Addresses an issue that causes BitLocker Network Unlock to fail on generation 2 virtual machines when it’s used in a network that only supports IPv4.

  • Addresses a privacy issue with apps that obtain the BroadFileSystemAccess capability without a user’s consent.

  • Addresses an issue in which WAM logging causes some applications such as Microsoft Office to stop working.

  • Addresses an issue that causes catalog signed scripts, including those shipped as part of Windows, to incorrectly generate a Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) failure audit event.

  • Addresses an issue in which Windows Driver Frameworks causes high CPU utilization. As a result, the user-mode driver stops working when the device resumes from Hibernate (S4).

  • Addresses an issue that may cause a 30-second delay when deleting or renaming a link in a Distributed File System (DFS) Namespace. Additionally, renaming a folder may take 30 seconds when multiple users work in a group share simultaneously, and File Explorer stops responding.

  • Addresses an issue that prevents you from overwriting a file in a shared folder because of an Access Denied error when a filter driver is loaded.

  • Addresses an issue that may cause third-party applications to have difficulty authenticating hotspots.

  • Addresses an issue that may cause a blue screen to appear when a Thunderbolt storage device is attached.

  • Addresses an issue that throws an exception when instantiating SqlConnection after you install the August Preview of Quality Rollup or September 11, 2018 .NET Framework update.

  • Addresses an issue that overwrites a user's Windows settings to display in a non-English language. This issue causes the display of Microsoft Office centennial apps to revert to the English language after installing a Microsoft Office update.

  • Addresses an issue that causes the clock and the calendar flyout to ignore user settings for Japanese Era date and time formats. For more information, see KB4469068.

  • Addresses an issue that can overwrite gan-nen support behavior for the Japanese Era with a newer update. For more information, see KB4469068.

  • Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character as the abbreviation for the Japanese Era name. For more information, see KB4469068.

  • Addresses an issue that fails to display the correct Japanese Era name in Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications. For more information, see KB4469068.

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

Known issues in this update

Symptom

Workaround

After installing this update, some users cannot pin a web link on the Start menu or the taskbar.

This issue is resolved in KB4487029.

Applications that use a Microsoft Jet database with the Microsoft Access 97 file format may fail to open if the database has column names greater than 32 characters. The database will fail to open with the error, “Unrecognized Database Format”.

This issue is resolved in KB4487017.

After installing KB4480966, some Microsoft Edge users report that they:

  • Cannot load webpages using a local IP address.

  • Cannot load webpages on the Internet using a VPN connection.

Browsing fails or the webpage may become unresponsive.

This issue is resolved in KB4487017.

After installing this update, the first character of the Japanese era name is not recognized as an abbreviation and may cause date parsing issues.

This issue is resolved in KB4487029.

After installing this update, MSXML6 causes applications to stop responding if an exception was thrown during node operations, such as appendChild(), insertBefore(), and moveNode().

The Group Policy editor may stop responding when editing a Group Policy Object (GPO) that contains Group Policy Preferences (GPP) for Internet Explorer 10 settings.

This issue is resolved in KB4493464.

Certain operations, such as rename, that you perform on files or folders that are on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) may fail with the error, “STATUS_BAD_IMPERSONATION_LEVEL (0xC00000A5)”. This occurs when you perform the operation on a CSV owner node from a process that doesn’t have administrator privilege.

Do one of the following:

  • Perform the operation from a process that has administrator privilege.

  • Perform the operation from a node that doesn’t have CSV ownership.

Microsoft is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.

How to get this update

Before installing this update

Microsoft strongly recommends you install the latest servicing stack update (SSU) for your operating system before installing the latest cumulative update (LCU). SSUs improve the reliability of the update process to mitigate potential issues while installing the LCU and applying Microsoft security fixes. For more information, see Servicing stack updates.

If you are using Windows Update, the latest SSU (KB4477137) will be offered to you automatically. To get the stand-alone package for the latest SSU, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog

Install this update

To download and install this update, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and select Check for updates.

To get the stand-alone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for cumulative update 4480976

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