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  1. Microsoft fixes Windows upgrade error 0x8007007F with OOB updates (Aug 2025)

    Microsoft has quietly closed a painful upgrade gap: after days of user reports and frantic troubleshooting, the Windows Setup error that surfaced as 0x8007007F during certain in‑place upgrades has been resolved and recovery/reset regressions have been mitigated with targeted out‑of‑band updates...
  2. August 2025 Windows Patch Regression: OOB Fixes Restore Reset and Cloud Recovery

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes — and an unexpected operational headache: a servicing regression in the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on several supported client branches and, in some upgrade...
  3. Windows Recovery Regression Fixed with Microsoft's OOB Updates (KB5066189/KB5066188/KB5066187)

    Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error...
  4. Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fix: Windows 10–11 and Server Upgrades Restored (0x8007007F)

    Microsoft has quietly resolved a critical upgrade-path bug introduced with the August Patch Tuesday roll‑out that blocked many Windows 10-to-Windows 11 and several Windows Server upgrade paths, leaving administrators and end users scrambling for workarounds during a narrow migration window...
  5. August 2025 Windows patch regression breaks Reset and Recovery workflows

    Microsoft has confirmed a regression in the August 2025 security updates that can break built‑in reset and recovery operations on several still‑supported Windows client branches, forcing administrators and home users to pause certain recovery workflows while the company prepares an out‑of‑band...
  6. Windows 11 August 2025 KB5063878: WSUS 0x80240069, Recovery Failures & OOB Fix

    Last week’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes and servicing updates — and with it a familiar enterprise headache: a cluster of delivery- and recovery-related regressions that have already prompted Microsoft to issue targeted mitigations and begin emergency servicing...