Microsoft released Build 22000.2003 optional non-security preview update KB5026436 in Windows 11 21H2, bringing many bug fixes and improvements, such as errors affecting printers when automatically connecting to WiFi, server message block (SMB) issues, Local Security Agency Subsystem Services ( LSASS), NTFS-related issues, and more.
Official Microsoft changelog content:
Highlights
- This update resolves an issue affecting narrators, and now correctly claims text properties of words such as “misspelt”, “deleted changes” and “comments”.
- This update resolves an issue affecting tab settings for accessing IE mode sites.
- This update resolves an issue affecting some printers that would not install if they were automatically connected to Wi-Fi.
- This update resolves an issue with multifunction label printers that affect the installation of some of them.
- This update resolves an issue affecting audio playback, which failed on devices with certain processors.
- This update improves the user experience (UX) and interaction of the search box on the taskbar.
Improvements
This non-security update includes quality improvements and when installing this KB:
- This update resolves an issue affecting searchindexer.exe. It stops working after logging out, which occurs after upgrading a computer to a Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and logging in to that computer.
- This update resolves an issue affecting Server Message Block (SMB). You cannot access the SMB shared folder. The error is “Insufficient memory resources” or “Insufficient system resources”.
- This update resolves an issue that sent unexpected password expiration notifications to users. This occurs when you set up an account to use “Interactive login requires smart card” and set “Enable rolling expiration of NTLM secrets”.
- This update resolves an issue affecting the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). It stops working, which happens when you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
- This update resolves an issue that affects scheduled tasks. These tasks failed when using stored local user account credentials. This happens when you enable Credential Guard. The error message is “2147943726: ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE (username or password incorrect).”
- This update resolves an issue affecting Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) clusters. It may not come online, which occurs after a periodic password update with error code 1326.
- This update resolves an issue affecting dot sourcing. It caused files containing class definitions in Windows PowerShell to fail.
- This update resolves an issue affecting the use of the event viewer. This issue limited the number of event sources that could be accessed by non-administrative users.
- This update resolves an issue affecting applications that perform certain actions in callbacks. The application may stop working and these actions include closing the window (WM_CLOSE).
- This update changes the Windows activation support phone number for Microsoft India.
- This update changes the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) scope for certain mobile providers.
- This update resolves an issue affecting the Windows Firewall. The firewall disconnects all connections to mandatory portal IP addresses. This happens when you select the Captive Portal Addresses option.
- This update resolves an issue that affects Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) devices. the Windows Firewall does not apply the correct domain and profile for them.
- This update resolves an issue that could affect large reanalysis points. When you access it using NTFS, you may encounter a stop error that occurs after a cancelled FSCTL setup operation changes the reparse flag.
