14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft rolls out new cumulative updates every month on Patch Tuesday, including here not only security fixes targeting vulnerabilities in Windows 10 and installed Microsoft software but also OS improvements and other tweaks refining the overall experience.
Today, the company announced that it would publish a second cumulative update for businesses running Windows 10 Creators Update, this time including non-security fixes.
Microsoft says that although it wants to release one such cumulative update every month (in addition to the security release on Patch Tuesday), there might be cases when more than a single extra cumulative update is shipped, depending on the bugs that it needs to fix.
These updates will be listed as “Updates” in WSUS and Configuration Manager, with certain exceptions when critical issues affecting organizations are targeted, so the updates will be flagged as “Critical Updates.”
Customers who use Windows Update for Business won’t have these updates installed automatically if options to defer quality updates are in place.
You can simply ignore these updates
The software giant explains that Windows 10 users getting these updates will be allowed to deploy them just like the updates that are shipped on Patch Tuesday, but at the same time, be provided with options to deploy each of them only to a subset of devices.
“This enables the organization to ensure that these new non-security fixes work well, prior to those same fixes being included in the next ‘Update Tuesday’ cumulative update which will be deployed throughout the organization,” the company explains.
Additionally, there’s the option not to deploy the updates at all because Windows 10 systems will eventually get the included improvements anyway with the next cumulative updates released on Patch Tuesday.
Cumulative updates include all the previously-released patches, so installing the latest version always brings a computer fully up to date. Deploying these non-security patches, however, puts users in more control over their patches, letting them address bugs before the monthly Patch Tuesday.