January 3, 2018—KB4056898 (Security-only update)

Improvements and fixes

This security update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are introduced in this update. Key changes include:

• Security updates to Windows SMB Server, Windows Kernel, Windows Datacenter Networking, and Windows Graphics.
  For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, see the Security Update Guide.

Known issues in this update

To prevent this issue, Microsoft will temporarily pause Windows OS updates to devices with impacted AMD processors at this time.| This issue is resolved in KB4073576.
Because of an issue that affects some versions of antivirus software, this fix applies only to computers on which the antivirus ISV updated the ALLOW REGKEY.| This issue is resolved in KB4093115. You no longer need the following ALLOW REGKEY to detect and be offered this update: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat\cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc
After installing this update, some systems running both PIC and APIC interrupt controllers may experience system crashes.| This issue is resolved in KB4077561.
Editing some group policies using GPMC or AGPM 4.0 may fail with error “The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071128)” after installing this update on a domain controller.| This issue is resolved in KB4074594.

How to get this update

This update is now available for installation through WSUS. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.File informationFor a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update 4056898.