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July 10, 2018—KB4338825 (OS Build 16299.547)


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Improvements and fixes

This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

  • Addresses an issue that, in some cases, causes the wrong IME mode to be chosen on an IME-active element.
  • Addresses an issue with form submission in Internet Explorer.
  • Addresses an issue where DNS requests disregard proxy configurations in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
  • Addresses additional issues with updated time zone information.
  • Addresses an issue that causes the latest versions of Google Chrome (67.0.3396.79+) to stop working on Cobalt devices.
  • Evaluates the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.

  • Security updates to Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft scripting engine, Windows apps, Windows graphics, Windows datacenter networking, Windows virtualization, Windows kernel, and Windows Server.

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

For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, see the Security Update Guide.

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Known issues in this update

Symptom Workaround
Some non-English platforms may display the following string in English instead of the localized language: ”Reading scheduled jobs from file is not supported in this language mode.” This error appears when you try to read the scheduled jobs you've created and Device Guard is enabled.

After evaluation, Microsoft has determined that this is a low probability and a low-risk issue, and we will not provide a solution at this time for Windows 10, version 1709.

If you believe that you are affected by this issue, please contact Microsoft Support.

When Device Guard is enabled, some non-English platforms may display the following strings in English instead of the localized language:

  • "Cannot use '&' or '.' operators to invoke a module scope command across language boundaries."
  • "'Script' resource from 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration' module is not supported when Device Guard is enabled. Please use 'Script' resource published by PSDscResources module from PowerShell Gallery."

After evaluation, Microsoft has determined that this is a low probability and a low-risk issue, and we will not provide a solution at this time for Windows 10, version 1709.

If you believe that you are affected by this issue, please contact Microsoft Support.

After installing this update on a DHCP Failover Server, Enterprise clients may receive an invalid configuration when requesting a new IP address. This may result in loss of connectivity as systems fail to renew their leases.

This issue is resolved in KB4345420.

After installing this update, some devices running network monitoring workloads may receive the 0xD1 Stop error because of a race condition

This issue is resolved in KB4345420.

Restarting the SQL Server service may fail occasionally with the error, “Tcp port is already in use”. This issue is resolved in KB4345420.
When an administrator tries to stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC), the W3SVC remains in a "stopping" state, but cannot fully stop or be restarted. This issue is resolved in KB4345420.

After you install any of the July 2018 .NET Framework Security Updates, a COM component fails to load because of “access denied,” “class not registered,” or “internal failure occurred for unknown reasons” errors. The most common failure signature is the following:

Exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException

Message: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

This issue is resolved in KB4343897.

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How to get this update

This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

Important When installing both the servicing stack update (SSU) (KB4339420) and the latest cumulative update (LCU) (KB4338825) from the Microsoft Update Catalog, install the SSU before installing the LCU.

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for cumulative update 4338825

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Keywords: windows 10 version 1709

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Article Info
Article ID : 4338825
Revision : 40
Created on : 3/11/2019
Published on : 3/11/2019
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