Microsoft has launched a number of emergency, out-of-band updates for Home windows 10, Home windows 11, and Home windows Server to repair two points brought on by the January Patch Tuesday updates.
The primary situation impacts Home windows 11, Home windows 10, and Home windows Server and blocks entry to Microsoft 365 Cloud PC periods. After putting in the January 2026 safety updates, some customers could encounter credential immediate failures in distant connection functions.
“After putting in the January 2026 Home windows safety replace (the Originating KBs listed above), credential immediate failures may happen in some distant connection functions,” defined Microsoft.
“This consists of distant desktop connections utilizing the Home windows App on Home windows shopper units, on Azure Digital Desktop and Home windows 365. The Home windows App is affected by this situation on particular Home windows builds and might expertise sign-in failures.”
The second situation prevents some PCs with Safe Launch enabled from shutting down or getting into hibernation. This downside solely impacts Home windows 11 model 23H2.
“After putting in the January 13, 2026, Home windows safety replace (the Originating KBs listed above) for Home windows 11, model 23H2, some PCs with Safe Launch are unable to close down or enter hibernation. As a substitute, the machine restarts,” warned Microsoft.
“Safe Launch makes use of virtualization-based safety to guard the system from firmware-level threats throughout startup.”
Microsoft beforehand stated the problem may very well be labored round by manually shutting down impacted units utilizing the next command:
shutdown /s /t 0
Microsoft releases OOB updates
To handle these issues, Microsoft launched the next out-of-band updates yesterday:
Microsoft says these updates will not be at the moment accessible through Home windows Replace and have to be manually downloaded and put in from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
For organizations unable to put in the out-of-band updates, Home windows admins can as an alternative deploy a Recognized Subject Rollback (KIR) to enterprise-managed units to handle the damaged distant desktop situation by way of Group Coverage.
“The particular Group Coverage could be present in Pc Configuration > Administrative Templates >
“For data on deploying and configuring this particular Group Coverage, please see How you can use Group Coverage to deploy a Recognized Subject Rollback.”
If these points don’t have an effect on your units, there isn’t a want to put in the out-of-band updates.
As a substitute, admins can look forward to the upcoming preview replace or subsequent month’s Patch Tuesday, when the fixes might be rolled out as a part of the common replace schedule.
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