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Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band patch on August 19, 2025 to repair a serious regression introduced by its August Patch Tuesday rollups that could prevent Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — Reset this PC, the Fix problems using Windows Update cloud reimage, and certain RemoteWipe...

Microsoft has issued emergency out‑of‑band updates after a routine August Patch Tuesday rollup left built‑in recovery paths — including Reset this PC, the cloud‑based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — unable to complete on a range of consumer and enterprise...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update has sidelined one of Windows’ most important safety nets: Reset and recovery flows that let users refresh, reinstall, or remotely wipe machines now fail on multiple client builds after the Patch Tuesday rollup, and Microsoft has shipped emergency out‑of‑band...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025 that restore broken Windows recovery workflows: KB5066189 for Windows 11 (build families 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) and KB5066188 for Windows 10 (OS builds 19044.6218 and 19045.6218) — fixes that directly address an August 12...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to fix a high‑impact regression introduced earlier in the August security rollup that broke Reset and cloud recovery flows, while reiterating a separate, platform‑level...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189—for Windows 11 devices on the 22621 and 22631 build families (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771). The package is an optional, non‑security rollup that patches a regression introduced by the August 2025 monthly updates...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) non‑security update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to repair a regression introduced by August’s cumulative updates that can block device reset and recovery operations, and to deliver a servicing stack...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771)—that quickly became the must‑install patch for Windows 11 22H2/23H2 devices affected by a regression introduced with the August security rollup; the update’s headline fix restores Reset...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771 — that restores broken reset and recovery flows introduced by the Patch Tuesday rollups earlier this month, and administrators and home users should treat this patch as a...

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...

If you’re a Windows Insider, the updates that land on your device are not just routine security patches — they can include preview features, experimental fixes, and staged changes that won't necessarily appear in retail Windows for months (or ever). This guide decodes the entries you see under...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted rollback and policy fixes to repair a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that could break .msu installations when run from network shares and disrupt enterprise update pipelines that rely on WSUS, SCCM, or scripted WUSA deployment. d delivery...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows Server 2019, KB5063877 (released August 12, 2025), finally closes out a high‑visibility clustering regression introduced by the July rollout: a Cluster Service failure that caused repeated service restarts, node quarantines and virtual machine...

Microsoft has confirmed three distinct issues tied to the August 12, 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (KB5063878), affecting enterprise update channels and producing noisy, though largely nonfunctional, error logs on some devices; Microsoft has issued rollbacks...

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’s patch KB5063709 quietly repaired the enrollment path that had prevented many Windows 10 users from signing up for the company’s one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the “Enroll now” experience in Settings so eligible PCs can get security‑only updates through...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 10 — KB5063709 — is a small download with an outsized purpose: it lays the technical groundwork that lets consumer PCs enroll in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program and receive security updates through October 13, 2026, even after...

Microsoft has released an update that resolves a severe clustering regression in Windows Server 2019 introduced by July’s cumulative security rollup, closing a weeks‑long incident that left some failover clusters unstable and virtual machines repeatedly restarting. Background / Overview In...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) is failing to install on some enterprise-managed endpoints delivered via WSUS and SCCM, and Redmond has published a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) policy that administrators can...