As we’ve told you earlier, users who installed Windows 10 TH2 from an ISO might have their privacy settings reset, and that’s what the company has tried to fix with this update.
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If you haven’t received the November Update yet, you can either wait for it to show up via Windows Update or install it manually via the Microsoft Creation Tool. More specifically, upon installing the update, Windows would not remember the users set privacy settings, meaning Windows would simply default them. We asked Microsoft why this was, and the software giant responded by saying it had chose to remove the November Update from the MCT (giving no actual reason for the decision) but that the update was still available through Windows Update.
The November update was originally available via the MCT tool, but we’ve decided that future installs should be through Windows Update.
After a few days of bad communication from Microsoft with pulling the November Update and now restoring it, we think everything is finally worked out, and this update helps the situation. As part of Windows as a service, the update delivers significant updates for business customers, including Windows Update for Business, Windows Store for Business, Mobile Device Management, Azure Active Directory and new security features.
According to the official changelog posted on the KB page, this new cumulative update “improves the functionality of Windows 10 version 1511”, but in a different Knowledge Base article the company explains what exactly is being changed with this update.
The biggest benefit of the new installation files is that it allows Windows 10 to be activated using a product key from Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1.
Windows Store for Business provides IT a flexible way to find, acquire, manage and distribute apps to Windows 10 devices – both Windows Store apps and custom line of business apps.
Microsoft has now fixed the upgrade/installation process to properly preserve these settings, and the November Update has once more been made available to Windows 10 users through Windows Update.
Microsoft released a fix on Tuesday, so anyone installing the update now shouldn’t be affected by the bug.
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The mystery behind the removal of the Windows 10 November Update, version 1511, has been revealed.
