2024-07-19 15:20:00
Microsoft is trying to change the structure of Windows updates with Windows 11 version 24H2 and Server 2025 and is introducing “cumulative checkpoint updates” for this purpose. As a tech community article points out, the Checkpoint updates should appear “regularly” – Microsoft won’t be more specific, but apparently it can be assumed for a few months. The monthly interim updates appear as a type of incremental delta packages that only replace content that has changed since the last cumulative checkpoint.
Notice
The idea behind it is to block the network, the computer and, above all, the users with the installation of rather thick cumulative packages every few months. The remaining updates come as smaller packages that – hopefully – download and install much faster. In Techcommunity post Microsoft also points out that the cumulative checkpoints are likely to coincide with the release of future feature updates – at least as long as these don’t come as a full in-place upgrade, but as a regular cumulative update plus a so-called enablement package . .
There is still a routine for administrators and users
The new update structure should not change anything for administrators or users. But there is one exception. Microsoft indicates that future updates downloaded from the update catalog will contain several packages: all previously released checkpoints for the Windows version as well as another cumulative package containing all the patches included from the latest checkpoint. It should be possible to install the packages one after the other using the existing management tools.
In the past, Microsoft has experimented with install and download technology several times. Since Windows 11, Windows Update first scans what components of a cumulative update actually need to be downloaded. Microsoft was able to reduce the download size, but the whole thing creates a certain computing load to determine the necessary components of an update – and instead an even longer update duration.
(jss)
#Microsoft #changing #structure #Windows #updates