KB5023778: New and improved features and fixed issues

Improvements

• New. This update introduces notifications for Microsoft accounts in the Start menu. This is currently only available to a small audience. It will be made more widely available in the coming months. Some devices may notice different visual treatments as we gather feedback. Take a look at the example below.
• Badging in the Start menu
• New. The search box on the taskbar is brighter when you set Windows to a custom color mode. This occurs when you set Windows mode to dark and App mode to light in Settings > Personalization > Colors.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the Editor combo box in Settings. Not all available options are displayed.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Microsoft PowerPoint. It stops responding. This occurs when you use accessibility tools.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Microsoft Speech Output. Items in drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel cannot be read.
• This update fixes an issue that affects USB printers. The system classifies them as multimedia devices even though they are not.

Bug fixes

• New. This update adds many new features and improvements to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. For more information, see Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the complexity policy settings for PINs. They are ignored.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the pin credentials icon for Fast Identity Online 2.0 (FIDO2). It does not appear on the credentials screen of an external monitor. This occurs when this monitor is connected to a closed laptop.
• This update resolves an issue that affects a clustered shared volume (CSV). The CSV file cannot be brought online. This occurs when you enable BitLocker and local managed CSV protections and the system has recently rotated the BitLocker keys.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Active Directory users &computers. It stops responding. This occurs when you use the TaskPad view to enable or disable many objects at the same time.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the Remote Procedure Call Service (rpcss.exe). The issue can cause a race condition between the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) endpoint mapping.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Microsoft PowerPoint. It stops responding to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). This occurs when you use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• This update fixes an issue that affects Windows Search. Windows Search fails inside Windows container images.
• This update affects the Group Policy Editor. It adds transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 to the list of protocols that you can specify.
• This update affects the Arab Republic of Egypt. The update supports the government daylight saving time change order for 2023.
• This update affects jscript9Legacy.dll. It adds ITracker and ITrackingService to prevent MHTML from not responding.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the Microsoft HTML application host (HTA). This issue blocks code execution that uses Microsoft HTA. This occurs when you enable Windows Defender forced User Mode Code Integrity (Umci) mode from Application Control (WDAC).
• This update affects Group Policy Management Console. It fixes a script error in the Group Policy Settings window.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) client. The client returns an HTTP server error status (500). This error occurs when a transfer job runs in the Storage Migration Service.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Desired State Configuration. The previously configured options are lost. This occurs when metaconfig.mof is missing.
• This update fixes an issue that affects Option 119 - Domain Search Option (DYNAMIC Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP). The issue prevents you from using a connection-specific DNS suffix lookup list.
• This update fixes a rare issue that can cause an input destination to be NULL. This problem can occur when you try to convert a physical point to a logical point during the hit test. From this case, the computer triggers an abort error.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) certificate. The system reports some SCEP certificate installations as failed. Instead, the system should report them as pending.
• This update fixes an issue that affects the new Windows Runtime API (WinRT). This issue prevents an application from querying location information with MBIM2.0 and later.
• This update fixes a known issue that affects kiosk device profiles. If you have autopilot enabled, this may not work. After Autopilot completes deployment, these devices remain on the login information screen. This issue occurs after you install updates dated January 10, 2023 and later.
• This update affects Xbox Elite users who have the Xbox Adaptive Controller. This update applies the controller remapping settings to the desktop.
• This update fixes an issue that can affect your audio. This can cause glitches or screeching. This occurs when the system is heavily loaded or reactivated from sleep mode.
• This update fixes an issue that prevents WDAC from analyzing fields from binary files.

Open issues

• After installing this update or a later update, Windows devices with some third-party user interface customization apps may fail to start. These third-party apps may cause errors with explorer.exe that may loop multiple times. The known affected third-party user interface customization apps are ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack. These types of apps often use unsupported methods to achieve their customization, and thus may have unintended results on your Windows device.