GoKawiilMicrosoft confirms November 2026 updates break printing for some documents
Microsoft issued a service alert warning that its November 2026 security updates can cause printing failures on Windows Server 2016+ and Windows 10+ devices. The bug affects documents containing images with zero height or width—often invisible watermarks or layout anchors—and mainly hits Word documents printed via the Windows GDI interface, though other apps may also be affected.
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This adds to a string of printing-related bugs Microsoft has had to acknowledge across 2025 and 2026, suggesting recurring fragility in how Windows updates interact with printing subsystems. Combined with other recently disclosed issues from the same update cycle—activation errors, SQL Server instability, and installation failures on systems with the October preview update—this points to broader quality-control strain in Microsoft's patch pipeline that IT administrators may need to account for before deploying updates widely.
- Microsoft's November 2026 security updates can break printing of documents with zero-size images, such as invisible watermarks.
- The issue mainly affects Word documents printed through the Windows GDI interface on Windows Server 2016+/Windows 10+.
- This is at least the fourth printing-related bug Microsoft has disclosed since March 2025, alongside other newly reported November 2026 update issues.
Source: bleepingcomputer.com, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Microsoft says November security updates cause printing issues”
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