Microsoft has fixed the Patch Tuesday bug that caused the VPN to break in Windows 10 and 11
Eric Lawson
Microsoft’s monthly patch updates Tuesday are aimed at Windows in general to fix Problems, but not always the way things are. The January updates, released last week, caused quite a few problems for businesses in particular. Most dangerous, especially for people still dealing with preventable remote work settings, has been the glitch Certain types of VPN connections are down. Microsoft has provided fixes for this and other issues as of today, several days following acknowledging the issue On his page of well-known issues.
According to Microsoft and Report from Beeping ComputerVPN connection issues affected “IPSEC connections containing vendor ID”, as well as L2TP and IPSEC IKE VPN connections in Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, 20H2, 2019, and 2016. Windows Embedded VPN client appears to be Most affected, but third-party VPN clients using these types of connections may also encounter an error.
The latest round of Patch Tuesday updates also caused some issues for Windows Server, including Unexpected reboot of domain controllers And Hyper-V Virtual Machines Boot Failed. All of these issues were resolved with other out of scope fixes, but not before they caused problems for limited IT managers.
Microsoft has also resolved an issue that caused ReFS drives to not appear at all or appear as raw and unformatted disks. Microsoft also fixed this problem, but not before Blame the problem On the “unsupported” use of ReFS in removable drives. The ReFS file system has been supported on consumer versions of Windows for several years, although Microsoft has removed the ability to create ReFS drives. several years agoThis is limited to Windows servers and enterprise editions.
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