steven36 Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Microsoft acknowledged a new issue leading to intermittent issues when printing or completely breaking the printing capabilities of Windows devices after installing cumulative updates issued during late September. "The print spooler service may intermittently have issues completing a print job and may result in a print job being canceled or failing," says Microsoft in the known issue's description on the Windows Release Health Dashboard. "Some apps may close or error when the print spooler fails and you may receive a remote procedure call error (RPC error) from some printing utility or printing apps," also adds Microsoft. Affected platforms & Client Server Originating update Windows 10, version 1903 ,Windows Server, version 1903 KB4522016 Windows 10, version 1809, Windows Server, version 1809/Windows Server 2019 KB4522015 Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 N/A Windows 10, version 1803, Windows Server, version 1803 KB4522014 Windows 10, version 1709, Windows Server, version 1709 KB4522012 Windows 10, version 1703, Windows Server 2012 R2 KB4522011 Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2016, Windows Server 2012 N/A Windows 10, version 1607, Windows Server 2016 KB4522010 Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015 N/A , Windows 8.1 .Windows Server 2012 R2 KB4516041 Windows 7 SP1. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 KB4516048 Workaround for printing issue A workaround is already available for this known issue while Microsoft is still working on a resolution that will be provided to all affected Windows customers as part of an upcoming release. Retrying the print job or restarting the device should allow users to successfully revive their printers according to Microsoft. For some devices, a driver downgrade may also be useful for solving the printing problems. "Retrying to print may allow you to print successfully. If retrying does not allow you to print, you may also need to restart your device," says Redmond. "If your device is using a v4 print driver and a v3 driver is available, you can also try installing the v3 driver as a workaround." [Windows Release Health Update – New Known Issue: Mitigated] The print spooler service may intermittently have issues completing a print job and may result in a print job being canceled or failing. Read more here: https://t.co/NHEQuEjsVX. — Windows Update (@WindowsUpdate) October 1, 2019 Windows 10 1903 in broad deployment, safeguards still on As announced by Microsoft last week, Windows 10 version 1903 is now the broad deployment channel which makes it available to everyone via Windows Update. This means that all users will now be able to see the Windows 10, version 1903 release being offered in Windows Update unless their devices are affected by hardware compatibility blocks. These are the six compatibility holds still active for devices upgradeable to Windows 1903, version 1903 (Microsoft provide mitigation measures for three of the issues behind them): • Safeguard on certain devices with some Intel and Broadcom Wi-Fi adapters • The dGPU may occasionally disappear from device manager on Surface Book 2 devices • Unable to discover or connect to Bluetooth devices (Mitigated) • Intel Audio displays an intcdaud.sys notification (Mitigated) • Cannot launch Camera app (Mitigated) • Intermittent loss of Wi-Fi connectivity Windows 10 users can use the info available in this support article or go through this guided walk-through to troubleshoot update problems. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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exitrade Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 8:35 PM, 948bennett said: Windows 10 is just a disaster, end of. ambivalence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanderthunder Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 2:02 AM, steven36 said: Microsoft acknowledged a new issue leading to intermittent issues when printing or completely breaking the printing capabilities of Windows devices after installing cumulative updates issued during late September. The intermittent print spooling issue has been addressed on the latest security update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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