March 19, 2019—KB4489892 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

Improvements and fixes

This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of KB4489878 (released March 12, 2019) and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update:

• Addresses an issue with a Microsoft Access 97 database that stops a requested operation when a table or column has custom properties.

• Addresses an issue with Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications that fails to use the Japanese Era registry settings for dates in the Japanese format. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Updates time zone information for Kazakhstan.

• Updates time zone information for São Tomé and Príncipe.

• Addresses an issue that prevents users from enabling gan-nen support for the Japanese Era. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Improves performance related to case-insensitive string comparison functions such as _stricmp() in the Universal C Runtime.

• Addresses an issue in which the graphics device interface (GDI) DeleteObject() may cause the calling process to stop working when both of the following conditions are true:

  • The calling process is a WOW64 process that handles memory addresses larger than 2 GB.

  • The DeleteObject() is called with a device context that is compatible with a printer device context.

• Addresses an issue that prevents date parsers from converting future and past dates (Gregorian and Japanese) in compound documents (formerly OLE) to a relevant Japanese Era date. For more information, seeKB4469068.

Known issues in this update

How to get this update

Before installing this update

Microsoft strongly recommends you install the latest servicing stack update (SSU) for your operating system before installing the latest Rollup. SSUs improve the reliability of the update process to mitigate potential issues while installing the Rollup. 

If you are using Windows Update, the latest SSU (KB4490628) will be offered to you automatically. To get the standalone package for the latest SSU, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog. 

Install this update

This is provided as an Optional update on Windows Update. For more information about how to run Windows Update, see How to get an update through Windows Update. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update 4489892.