Right now, Microsoft mounted a recognized challenge breaking VPN connections throughout shopper and server platforms after putting in the April 2024 Home windows safety updates.
“Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update,” Redmond explains on the Home windows well being dashboard.
The record of impacted Home windows variations consists of Home windows 11, Home windows 10, and Home windows Server 2008 and later.
Whereas Microsoft didn’t present a root trigger for these VPN failures, it suggested dwelling customers to make use of the Home windows Get Assist app and small enterprise and huge enterprise clients to succeed in out by way of the devoted “Assist for Enterprise” portal in the event that they want help.
Two weeks after first acknowledging it, Microsoft mounted this recognized challenge in Home windows cumulative updates launched in the course of the Could 2024 Patch Tuesday.
The whole record of affected Home windows variations and the cumulative updates that repair the VPN failures consists of:
Admins who can’t instantly set up this month’s Patch Tuesday updates can briefly tackle the VPN points by eradicating the problematic April cumulative updates.
“To remove the LCU after installing the combined SSU and LCU package, use the DISM/Remove-Package command line option with the LCU package name as the argument. You can find the package name by using this command: DISM /online /get-packages,” Microsoft says.
Nevertheless, since Redmond consists of all safety fixes in a single replace, uninstalling the April updates can even take away all fixes for patched safety flaws, despite the fact that it resolves the Home windows VPN points.
One 12 months in the past, Microsoft acknowledged main L2TP/IPsec VPN pace points over Wi-Fi connections after putting in the April 2023 non-security updates on Home windows 11 programs.
In January 2022, it launched emergency updates to tackle L2TP VPN points when connecting by way of the Home windows VPN shopper after putting in the January 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.
Right now, Microsoft additionally mounted a recognized challenge inflicting area controller reboots and NTLM authentication failures after putting in final month’s Home windows Server safety updates and a zero-day bug actively exploited to ship QakBot and different malware unpatched Home windows programs.
