GoKawiilRedmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list
Microsoft has confirmed that its latest security updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services, silence some USB audio devices, and break pasting in Excel.
September's Windows patches hardly support Microsoft's insistence that it is sorting out quality. The known issues list suggests there's still work to do.
Reports of problems with Remote Desktop Services (RDS) began circulating on social media shortly after the update, and Microsoft has now acknowledged that, for some users, RDS has indeed been broken across multiple Windows versions, including Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2012.
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The latter is due to drop out of the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program on October 13, 2026, so perhaps administrators might consider this a going-away present from Microsoft?
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Connections might fail after a few minutes, servers might hang at "Please wait for the Remote Desktop Configuration," and so on.
"Related tools, including Microsoft Management Console (MMC), RDS Licensing Diagnoser, and File Explorer might also become unresponsive," Microsoft admitted.
"Additionally, the Windows Update page might stop responding and continuously display a loading indicator."
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