Windows 10: Windows 10 update process simplified with February 2021 Patch Tuesday

Last year, Microsoft made the decision to simplify the Windows 10 update process by incorporating the servicing stack updates and latest cumulative update into a ‘single package design’.

According to Microsoft, the single package design could streamline the whole update process and reduce Windows 10 installation issues, especially when you’ve to manually update computers in an organization.

In multiple support documents, Microsoft has confirmed that SSU (service stack update) are now combined with the monthly cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1809 or newer.

This change is rolling out to all supported versions of the operating system with Windows 10 February 2021 cumulative update. The single package design is not coming to older and unsupported versions of the OS and Microsoft recommends updating to the latest version so that failure scenario can no longer occur.

For those unaware, servicing stack updates are released every month with reliability improvements for the update process. These updates are designed to mitigate potential issues while installing the monthly cumulative update and a problem is likely to be encountered when SSUs are skipped

SSUs are installed automatically when you update your device via Windows Update Settings. However, SSUs can be skipped when you manually install updates via the Microsoft Update Catalog. This could lead to issues when installing future cumulative updates.

With February update, Microsoft is ensuring that SSU and cumulative updates are included in the same package.

This change will come into effect only when you install the February updates from the Windows Update. Once done, Windows 10’s usual cumulative updates will include servicing stack updates (or SSUs).

In addition to these improvements, Microsoft has also fixed numerous issues with this month’s cumulative update. For instance, the Redmond firm has fixed issues with Windows Credentials Manager, File Explorer, browsers, multitasking, and more.

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Does Patch Tuesday still exist

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

• Which Tuesdays patch you are referring to?
• Which patch you are referring to? Is it for Windows or phone?

I suggest you to refer to the Windows blog for the latest news and check if it helps.

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/

Hope the above information helps. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further.

Thank you.

 

Windows Update - patch tuesday becomes generally patch gradually?

Once, the 2nd tuesday of the month was windows 'patch tuesday'.

But since windows 10 was released, MS made it clear that updates for that OS would be released gradually, from the 2nd tuesday onwards. The deployment of win10 used the update servers, and the moans and screams about the impact on every other update were
deafening: for that year, a typical 30 minute update for win 7 took about 3 hours, sometimes more. So after the free period elapsed, gradual patching of win 10 seemed a reasonable approach to de-congesting the update servers, since every update I have seen
seems to be a complete new release, not just 'patches'.

It seems that this gradualism approach is being applied to updates for windows 7 now. For the last few months, updates for 64bit windows 7 were available on patch tuesday, but the same updates for 32bit windows 7 were not released for at least 4 days after
that (I made a specific check on that date, no updates available, but several days later, there's 300Mb of them waiting). Thus, patch tuesday is becoming de-facto patch gradually

So the question is: is this gradual update of all OS now a distinct policy by MS? Happening several times in a row does suggest that. As one popular TV drama has it, "there's no such thing as coincidence". And knowing this one can adjust the admin cycle
on affected Pc's.

 

August Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10

Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates to all of their products.

Windows 10 1803

KB4343909 is released for version 1803. The build number is 17134.228 after the update.

• 32 bit download
• 64 bit download

Windows 10 1709

KB4343897 is released for version 1709. The build number is 16299.611 after the update.

32 bit download

64 bit download

More details:

August Patch Tuesday updates now available - Your Windows Guide