Microsoft says the April safety updates for Home windows could break your VPN. (Oops!) “Home windows units may face VPN connection failures after putting in the April 2024 safety replace (KB5036893) or the April 2024 non-security preview replace,” the corporate wrote in a standing replace. It’s engaged on a repair.
Bleeping Laptop first reported the difficulty, which impacts Home windows 11, Home windows 10 and Home windows Server 2008 and later. Person studies on Reddit are combined, with some commenters saying their VPNs nonetheless work after putting in the replace and others claiming their encrypted connections had been certainly borked.
“We’re engaged on a decision and can present an replace in an upcoming launch,” Microsoft wrote.
There’s no correct repair till Microsoft pushes a patched replace. Nonetheless, you possibly can work across the concern by uninstalling all the safety updates. In an unlucky little bit of timing for CEO Satya Nadella, he mentioned final week that he needs Microsoft to place “safety above else.” I can’t think about making clients (quickly) select between going with out a VPN and dropping the newest safety is what he had in thoughts.
Not less than one Redditor claims that uninstalling and reinstalling their VPN app mounted the issue for them, so it might be value attempting that earlier than shifting on to extra drastic measures.
Should you resolve to uninstall the safety updates, Microsoft tells you ways. “To take away the LCU after putting in the mixed SSU and LCU package deal, use the DISM/Take away-Bundle command line possibility with the LCU package deal identify because the argument,” the corporate wrote in its patch notes. “You’ll find the package deal identify by utilizing this command: DISM /on-line /get-packages.”