Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch cycle has produced two very different but equally alarming headlines this week: an emergency mitigation for enterprise update delivery failures, and community reports that the same cumulative update may be triggering storage devices to become unreadable or...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) promised performance and security fixes, but within days it became the focal point of two separate reliability incidents: an enterprise deployment failure that blocked WSUS/SCCM installs and, more alarmingly, early community reports that...
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An HPE ProLiant DL325 class server running Windows Server 2025 has been reported to crash to a Blue Screen of Death with the stop code IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (what failed: ntoskrnl.exe) after applying the July 2025 cumulative updates (KB5062553 and follow-ons), sparking fresh warnings for server...
Microsoft pushed a targeted re-release and mitigation for the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) after enterprise customers reported widespread WSUS/SCCM delivery failures that surfaced as error code 0x80240069 — Microsoft acknowledged the problem and rolled a containment...
Microsoft has issued a firm deadline: Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving updates on November 11, 2025, which means security patches and quality fixes end on that date — leaving holdouts with an increasingly risky system and, for most consumers, no practical option but to...
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Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update (KB5063878) is causing installation failures in certain enterprise scenarios and has pushed an emergency mitigation while engineers work on a permanent fix. The issue surfaces as error code 0x80240069 when updates are...
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Microsoft has confirmed that Event Viewer entries reporting a CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error are appearing on Windows 11 version 24H2 after recent updates, but the company says these logs are cosmetic and do not affect running apps or network connectivity.
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Windows 11’s...
Microsoft has again told Windows 11 users to “ignore” an alarming Event Viewer entry after the June 2025 optional preview update, a decision that highlights both a specific logging bug and a broader trust problem with how Windows handles noisy security telemetry. osoft pushed an optional...
Microsoft is again telling Windows 11 users to “ignore” a worrying-looking Event Viewer message after another round of updates and rollback confusion left Event ID 2042 entries populating security logs — a problem traced to an under-development firewall feature rather than a malfunctioning...
Windows 11 August 12, 2025 — KB5063878 (24H2) & KB5063875 (22H2 / 23H2)
An in‑depth Breakdown for WindowsForum.com (Markdown)
Short version (TL;DR)
Microsoft released the August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates for Windows 11. The 24H2 servicing branch is updated as KB5063878 (OS Build...