February 19, 2019—KB4486565 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

Improvements and fixes

This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of KB4486563 (released February 12, 2019) and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update:

• Updates time zone information for Chile.

• Addresses an issue with evaluating the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.

• Adds support for the SignerSignEx2 API to allow Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 to sign files using this API.

• Addresses an issue that can overwrite gan-nen support behavior for the Japanese era with a newer update. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Enables the 元年 character for the first year in the Japanese era. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Addresses an issue that fails to display the correct Japanese era name in Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character as the abbreviation for the Japanese era name. For more information, see KB4469068.

• Addresses an issue that may cause virtual machines (VM) to fail to restore successfully if the VM has been saved and restored once before. The error message is, “Failed to restore the virtual machine state: Cannot restore this virtual machine because the saved state data cannot be read. Delete the saved state data and then try to start the virtual machine. (0xC0370027).” This affects AMD Bulldozer Family 15h, AMD Jaguar Family 16h, and AMD Puma Family 16h (second generation) microarchitectures.

• Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character of the Japanese era name as an abbreviation and may cause date parsing issues.

• Addresses an issue that may prevent Internet Explorer from loading images that have a backslash (\) in their relative source path.

• Addresses an issue that may cause applications that use a Microsoft Jet database with the Microsoft Access 95 file format to randomly stop working.

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 (KB3177467) will be offered to you automatically. To get the stand-alone 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 stand-alone 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 4486565.