Microsoft has confirmed it’s investigating a bug inflicting the Home windows 10 KB5068781 prolonged safety replace to fail to put in with 0x800f0922 errors on gadgets with company licensing.
KB5068781 is the first Home windows 10 prolonged safety replace and was launched on November 11 as a part of Patch Tuesday.
Since then, some enterprise Home windows 10 customers have reported that the KB5068781 replace is failing to put in on sure gadgets.
“We’re at present experiencing the identical situation with this KB5068781 throughout our managed Win10 gadgets, regardless of buying and making use of the ESU license (MAK key) to all our gadgets,” wrote a BleepingComputer reader.
“The replace seems to put in efficiently, however after a restart, it fails to use and rolls again with the widespread error 0x800f0922.”
Microsoft has now confirmed that they’re conscious of and investigating the problem, stating it solely impacts Home windows subscription activation via the Microsoft 365 Admin Heart.
“Some Home windows 10 gadgets enrolled in Prolonged Safety Updates (ESU) would possibly fail to put in the November 2025 safety replace (the Originating KBs listed above) with error 0x800f0922 (CBS_E_INSTALLERS_FAILED),” explains Microsoft.
“This situation is remoted to gadgets activated by way of Home windows subscription activation via the Microsoft 365 Admin Heart.”
Sadly, there isn’t a ETA for when a repair might be out there and Microsoft has not supplied any workarounds to resolve these errors.
Along with the set up errors, Home windows admins in company environments have reported [1, 2] that not all of their Home windows 10 gadgets are displaying as needing the brand new KB5068781 ESU replace, even when they’re appropriately licensed to obtain it.
To assist organizations enhance their patching workflows and scale back the danger of points like this, BleepingComputer might be internet hosting a December 2 webinar with Action1 on fashionable patch administration.
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