Windows 10: What is wrong with January Windows Cumulative Updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 are not...

What is wrong with January Windows Cumulative Updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 are not working? What must Microsoft recommend to fix this issue on most of our company's Windows 11 machines? Why did Microsoft release updates that caused headaches in the enterprise environment?

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Windows Cumulative Updates failing to install

I'm having a large number of failures installing the December and now the January Cumulative updates for Widows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The specific updates are:
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MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

and

MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5034123 (x64)

MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5034123 (x64)
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I have followed the instructions detailed by David-M in this post: Windows Update failing to install - Microsoft Community and others with similiar steps, none of the steps have succeeded. I have tried using Windows Update locally, pushing the updates from our asset management software and even downloaded the specific CU locally, and running the installer/update. Regardless of the method, the install universally fails with: "Install error - 0x800f081f"

On the 22H2 systems I have also tried upgrading to 23H2 and generally speaking those fail as well. Does anyone have a similar experience and found a way through this?

 

Cannot install Windows 11 23H2

If your system runs 22H2 and is up-to-date, you can install the tiny enablement package to upgrade to 23H2 quickly.

Windows 11 23H2 Enablement Update:

https://catalog.sf.dl.delivery.mp.m..._3a9c368e239bb928c32a790cf1663338d2cad472.msu

Prerequisites

Before updating to Windows 11, version 23H2 using an enablement package, you must be running Windows 11, version 22H2. You must have the following prerequisite installed before applying this update:

• October 31, 2023—KB5031455 (OS Builds 22621.2506 and 22631.2506) Preview or a later cumulative update
  

 

is there a standalone update file for windows 11 23h2?

On Windows 11 22h2 install this small 23h2 Enablement Update:

https://catalog.sf.dl.delivery.mp.m..._3a9c368e239bb928c32a790cf1663338d2cad472.msu

On Arm64 Devices with Windows 11 22h2 you need this Update:

https://catalog.sf.dl.delivery.mp.m..._bacb74fba9077a5b7ae2f74a3ebb0b506f9708f3.msu

Always install the latest cumulative update first and then the 23h2 enablement update.

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