{"id":244071,"date":"2026-09-15T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-releases-emergency-windows-updates-to-fix-rds-failures"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:16","slug":"microsoft-releases-emergency-windows-updates-to-fix-rds-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-releases-emergency-windows-updates-to-fix-rds-failures","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases emergency Windows updates to fix RDS failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-releases-emergency-windows-updates-to-fix-rds-failures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band Windows updates to fix Remote Desktop Services failures caused by this month\u2019s security updates, along with Hyper-V and USB audio problems on some Windows versions.<\/p>\n<p>The September 2026 security updates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-september-updates-cause-rds-failures-on-windows-server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">caused Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to become unstable<\/a> on affected systems, leading to RDP connection and sign-in failures and, in some cases, unresponsive servers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/september-windows-server-updates-break-remote-desktop-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously acknowledged the issue<\/a> after Windows administrators reported widespread RDS problems following the September updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band Windows updates to fix Remote Desktop Services failures caused by this month\u2019s security updates, along with Hyper-V and USB audio problems on some Windows versions. The September 2026 security updates caused Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to become unstable on affected systems, leading to RDP connection and sign-in failures and, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}