Microsoft released the Win11 21H2 update in October 2021, and already issued a reminder in July of this year stating that the version will stop being supported in 3 months, on October 10, 2023 (EOS).

Microsoft today again issued a reminder, urging users of Home Edition, Professional Edition, Professional Education Edition and Workstation Professional Edition to upgrade as soon as possible, and no longer push security updates after October 10 this year. The official content of Microsoft is as follows: the optional update released at the end of this month will be the last optional update received by Win11 21H2; the update released on Patch Tuesday in October will be its last cumulative update. A cumulative update.

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Microsoft released the Win11 21H2 update in October 2021, and now urges Home, Professional, Professional Education and Workstation Professional users to upgrade as soon as possible, and no longer push security updates after October 10 this year.

Microsoft part of the notice is as follows, after October 10, still running the version of the user can contact Microsoft after-sales, guide the device upgrade, install to the latest Win11 version.

Another notable thing is that Microsoft is taking mandatory steps to require Win11 21H2 devices to install the update and upgrade to the Win11 22H2 update.

“Enterprise devices running Win11 21H2 Home, Professional, and unmanaged states are automatically updated to 22H2 starting in January 2023,” Microsoft said in the Windows Release Runtime Status Dashboard.

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The March OOBE update added Shim to improve compatibility with Component Object Model (COM) objects, and the April OOBE update also addressed compatibility issues, related to the registry.

Microsoft says the update will install automatically during OOBE if an Internet connection is available, requiring a restart of the device to complete the installation.

For the May OOBE update release, Microsoft simply mentioned that in order to improve the Windows 21H2 out-of-the-box experience, this update only applies to the Windows 11 OOBE process and is only available when the OOBE update is installed.

The official OOBE Update support documentation (under KB5026910) details the documentation provided with this release.

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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.

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This update contains various security improvements to the internal operating system functionality. No other issues are documented in this release. This update provides quality improvements to the service stack (the component that installs Windows updates). Service Stack Update (SSU) ensures that you have a robust and reliable service stack so that your device can receive and install Microsoft updates.

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Another user, PhantomOcean3, indicated that three different taskbar search styles appear in Windows 11 21H2 Build 22000.1042.

However, regular users can also enable it through a third-party tool called Vivetools.

"1. Download Vivetools from the Github page

2. Double-click Vivetools.zip and extract it to any folder you wish

3. Copy the path to the unzipped folder

4. Open the search and look for the command prompt

5. Choose to open the command prompt with administrator privileges"


6. Type cd in the window and paste the folder path. For example, "cd C:\users\username\downloads\ViveTool-v0.3.1".

7. After opening the folder, enter the following command

● vivetool /enable /id:39263329 /variant:X (1, 3 or 5)
8. After completing the operation, reboot the system

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In a Sept. 22 announcement, Microsoft said there are incompatibility issues with certain driver versions for Intel’s 11th generation Core processors and Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST) on Windows 11.

Windows 11 devices with the affected Intel SST drivers may experience blue screen errors. The affected driver will be named Intel® Smart Sound Technology (Intel® SST) Audio Controller under System Devices in Device Manager with the file name IntcAudioBus.sys and the file version 10.29.0.5152 or 10.30.0.5152.

Only devices with both Intel 11th Generation Core processors and Intel SST driver version 10.29.0.5152 or 10.30.0.5152 are affected by this issue.

Microsoft says it has implemented a compatibility pause for devices with the affected Intel SST drivers installed to prevent the availability of Windows 11 version 22H2 or Windows 11 version 21H2 in order to safeguard the upgrade experience for users.

Users can resolve this by upgrading the Intel SST driver to version 10.30.00.5714 and higher or 10.29.00.5714 and higher.

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The KB5017383 update appears in Windows Update as “2022-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5017383) “After users confirm the download and installation, they will need to reboot the device to take effect. Users can also download the offline installer through the Update Catalog.

Microsoft introduced the “dynamic widgets” feature in Windows 11 KB5017383 (Build 22000.1042), which was previously exclusive to Windows 11 22H2, but is now backward compatible to 21H2. With dynamic widgets, Microsoft wants to make the taskbar more attractive with widget icons and regular updates.

The widget integrated into the taskbar should soon allow users to see financial market trading prices and other updates. And it still works in the same way: you will get the information directly on the taskbar, without even clicking on the icons. As you can see in the screenshot below, the taskbar will show live updates from the Sports and Finance widgets.

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