
Microsoft Releases Essential Out-of-Band Updates for Windows Users
In an important development for Windows users, Microsoft has rolled out new out-of-band (OOB) updates for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. These updates serve as a hotfix in light of the recent Patch Tuesday for April 2025, which introduced multiple updates (KB5055523 and KB5055528 for Windows 11, alongside KB5055518, KB5055519, KB5055521, and KB5055547 for Windows 10).
Addressing Active Directory Group Policy Issues
The primary aim of these updates is to rectify a specific bug related to Active Directory Group Policy. Fortunately, most home users are likely not impacted by this issue. Microsoft has clarified that:
Microsoft has identified an issue where audit logon/logoff events in the local policy of the Active Directory Group Policy might not show as enabled on the device even if they are enabled and working as expected. This can be observed in the Local Group Policy Editor or Local Security Policy, where local audit policies show the “Audit logon events”policy with security setting of “No auditing”.An out-of-band (OOB) update has been released today, April 11, 2025, to address this issue.
This update is available exclusively through the Microsoft Update Catalog and is designed to be cumulative—meaning users do not need to install earlier updates to implement it, and it supersedes any prior releases. For users utilizing Active Directory Group Policy who have yet to deploy the April 2025 Windows security update, applying this OOB patch is strongly advised. The supported Windows versions include:
- Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2 (KB5058919)
- Windows Server 2022 (KB5058920)
- Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 and Windows Server 2019 (KB5058922)
- Windows 10 LTSB 2016 and Windows Server 2016 (KB5058921)
- Azure Stack HCI, version 22H2 (KB5058920)
Download Links and More Information
For users looking to download the necessary updates, the links to access them through the Microsoft Update Catalog are provided below:
For further details regarding this announcement, you can visit Microsoft’s Windows Health Dashboard through the following link: Announcement Post.
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