14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has confirmed a bug that is impacting the Windows Server Update Services, also known as WSUS, on Windows 11 version 22H2.
The company says that the latest updates that went live as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday cycle might not be offered from servers running WSUS to devices running this particular version of Windows 11.
The company explains in a post on the Windows Health Dashboard that WSUS will still download the updates, but on the other hand, they wouldn’t be pushed to client devices.
The company says the only way to mitigate the issue right now is to add file types for the Unified Update Platform on premises.
Full fix already in the works
“Updates released February 14, 2023 or later might not be offered from some Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers to Windows 11, version 22H2. The updates will download to the WSUS server but might not propagate further to client devices,” the company says.
“Affected WSUS servers are only those running Windows Server 2022 which have been upgraded from Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019. This issue is caused by the accidental removal of required Unified Update Platform (UUP) MIME types during the upgrade to Windows Server 2022 from a previous version of Windows Server. This issue might affect security updates or feature updates for Windows 11, version 22H2. Microsoft Configuration Manager is not affected by this issue.”
Needless to say, a full fix is already in the works, but Microsoft can’t provide an ETA as to when it could be released to users out there.
In the meantime, the good news is that not all devices are impacted, as the issue has been observed only on Windows Server 2022 running WSUS and trying to push updates to clients running Windows 11 version 22H2.