14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just rolled out a new cumulative update for Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607) after previously testing it with the help of users enrolled in the Windows Insider program.
Windows 10 cumulative update KB3201845 doesn’t bring any new operating system features, as is the case with all the other cumulative updates, but only fixes and performance improvements that you can read in full in the box at the end of the article.
For example, one such fix improves “the reliability of mobile device management (MDM) disenrollment, Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Peripheral Component Interface and PowerShell,” according to the changelog.
There are also fixes for issues causing File Explorer not to prompt for credentials when a user logs on with a Microsoft account, as well as repairs for problems causing the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) client to fail installation when a device is re-imaged using the SCCM task sequence.
The update is called “Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 and Windows Server 2016: December 9, 2016” and is being shipped right now via Windows Update for computers running any of these two OS versions.
Installing fine here
As it happens when Microsoft rolls out a new cumulative update for Windows 10 computers, there are concerns that it could fail to install or cause other problems on the systems it’s supposed to be deployed on. This happened pretty much with every single cumulative update released so far, but it remains to be seen if Microsoft managed to fix these issues or not.
In our case, this cumulative update installed fine, but the same thing happened when getting it as part of the Windows Insider program on our testing PCs here at Softpedia.
As usual, we’ll keep an eye out on reports to see if other users actually experience issues with this cumulative update and we’ll keep you posted. Creating a backup seems to be the best solution, however, just in case something goes wrong.