Brings Various New Features, Changes, And Other Quality Improvements

Improvements

• New! Gives you the to receive important notifications when focus assist is on. Focus assist is like a do not disturb mode that hides notifications.
• New! Gives you the to update to a newer Windows 11 version at the very first startup of Windows if your device is eligible.

This non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:

• New! Provides the ability for you to consent to receive important notifications when focus assist is on.
• New! Provides the for eligible devices to update to a newer Windows 11 version during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) when you first sign in. If you choose to update to a newer version, the update process will begin shortly after the update is installed on the device.
• New! Restores functionality for Windows Autopilot deployment scenarios that are affected by the security mitigation for hardware reuse. This update removes the one-time use restriction for self-deploying mode (SDM) and pre-provisioning (PP). This update also re-enables any User Principal Name (UPN) display in user-driven mode (UDM) deployments for approved manufacturers.
• Improves the reliability of a push-button reset after an OS upgrade.
• Updates the Remove-Item cmdlet to properly interact with Microsoft OneDrive folders.
• Deploys search highlights to devices. To access the policy for search highlights (on a device that has installed the June 2022 Cumulative Update Preview or July 2022 monthly quality update), go to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions and locate Search.admx. For your convenience, we will be publishing an updated version of the Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11, version 21H2 to the Microsoft Download Center soon.
• Reduces the overhead of resource contention in high /output operations per second (IOPS) scenarios that have many threads contending on a single file.

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

Windows 11 servicing stack update - 22000.826

This update makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates. Servicing stack updates (SSU) ensure that you have a robust and reliable servicing stack so that your devices can receive and install Microsoft updates.

Bug fixes

• Addresses an issue that causes File Explorer to stop working when you use the play and pause keyboard buttons on certain devices.
• Addresses an issue that causes File Explorer to stop working when you use the Start menu's context menu (Win+X) and an external monitor is connected to your device.
• Addresses an issue that displays a blank window that you cannot close when you hover over the search icon on the taskbar.
• Addresses an issue that prevents certain troubleshooting tools from opening.
• Addresses an issue in UIAutomation() that causes an application to stop working.
• Addresses an issue that prevents the Startup Task API from working as expected for certain apps.
• Addresses an issue that makes the tenant restrictions event logging channel inaccessible if you remove the EN-US language pack.
• Addresses an issue that causes certificate-based machine account authentication to fail in some circumstances after you install the May 10, 2022 security updates on domain controllers.
• Addresses an issue that affects the Arm64EC code you build using the Windows 11 software development kit (SDK).
• Addresses an issue that prevents certain troubleshooting tools from opening.
• Addresses an issue that causes port mapping conflicts for containers.
• Addresses an issue that causes Code Integrity to continue trusting a file after the file has been modified.
• Addresses an issue that might cause Windows to stop working when you enable Windows Defender Application Control with the Intelligent Security Graph feature turned on.
• Addresses an issue that causesexplorer.exe to stop working when you use the play and pause keyboard buttons on certain devices.
• Addresses an issue that causesexplorer.exe to stop working when you use the Start menu's context menu (Win+X) and an external monitor is connected to your device.
• Addresses an issue that displays a blank window that you cannot close when you hover over the search icon on the taskbar.
• Addresses an issue that causes the Windows profile service to fail sporadically. The failure might occur when signing in. The error message is, "gpsvc service failed to sign in. Access denied".
• Addresses an issue that causes index rebuilding to be slow. This helps devices that have local search issues, including searching for recent emails in Outlook.

Open issues

· [IT admins] - After installing this update, IE mode tabs in Microsoft Edge might stop responding when a site displays a modal dialog box. A modal dialog box is a or dialog box that requires the user to respond before continuing or interacting with other portions of the webpage or app.

Developer Note Sites affected by this issue callwindow.focus.

Workaround: This issue is addressed inKB5016691. If you do not want to install this update, see the instructions below.

This issue is resolved using Known Issue Rollback (KIR). Please note that it might take up to 24 hours for the resolution to propagate automatically to consumer devices and non-managed business devices. Restarting your Windows device might help the resolution apply to your device faster. For enterprise-managed devices that have installed an affected update and encountered this issue can resolve it by installing and configuring the special Group Policy listed below. For information on deploying and configuring these special Group Policy, please see How to use Group Policy to deploy a Known Issue Rollback.

Group Policy downloads with Group Policy name:

o Download for Windows 11 - Windows 11 (original release) KB5014019 220624_22553 Known Issue Rollback

Important You will need to install and configure the Group Policy for your version of Windows to resolve this issue.

· [All users] - After installing this update, we have received reports that a small number of devices might be unable to open the Start menu. On affected devices, clicking or ing the Start button or using the Windows key on your keyboard might have no effect.

Workaround: This issue is addressed inKB5016629. If you are using an update released before August 9, 2022, see below.

This issue is resolved using Known Issue Rollback (KIR). Please note that it might take up to 24 hours for the resolution to propagate automatically to consumer devices and non-managed business devices. Restarting your Windows device might help the resolution apply to your device faster. For enterprise-managed devices that have installed an affected update and encountered this issue can resolve it by installing and configuring a special Group Policy. The special Group Policy can be found in Computer Configuration >Administrative Templates> KB5014668 220721_04201 Known Issue Rollback >Windows 11 (original release). For information on deploying and configuring these special Group Policy, seeHow to use Group Policy to deploy a Known Issue Rollback.

Group Policy downloads with Group Policy name:

o Download for Windows 11, version 21H2 - KB5014668 220721_04201 Known Issue Rollback

Important You will need to install and configure the Group Policy for your version of Windows to resolve this issue.

· [IT admins] After installing this update, XPS Viewer might be unable to open XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents in some non-English languages, including some Japanese and Chinese character encodings. This issue affects both XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Open XML Paper Specification (OXPS) files. When encountering this issue, you may receive an error, "This page cannot be displayed" within XPS Viewer or it might stop responding and have high CPU usage with continually increasing memory usage. When the error is encountered, if XPS Viewer is not closed it might reach up to 2.5GB of memory usage before closing unexpectedly.

This issue does not affect most home users. The XPS Viewer is no longer installed by default as of Windows 10, version 1803 and must be manually installed.