March 14, 2023—KB5023765 (Monthly Rollup)

Summary

Learn more about this cumulative security update, including improvements, any known issues, and how to get the update.

Improvements

This cumulative security update includes improvements that are part of update KB5022899 (released February 14, 2023). This update also makes improvements for the following issues:

• After applying a Windows update released on or after July 12, 2022, hyperlinks embedded in an Office document that use the search-ms protocol might stop working.

• The Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (Lsass.exe) might stop responding after System Preparation (sysprep) is run on a domain-joined device.

• By order of the Mexican government in October 2022, the United Mexican States will not observe daylight saving time (DST) in 2023. Key changes in the order include the following:

  • Updated DST rules for Mountain Standard Time (Mexico) and Central Standard Time (Mexico) to no daylight saving time starting in 2023.

  • Changed Chihuahua time zone from (UTC -7:00) Mountain Standard Time (Mexico) to (UTC -6:00) Central Standard Time (Mexico).

  • Changed Ojinaga time zone from (UTC -7:00) Mountain Standard Time (Mexico) to (UTC -6:00) Central Standard Time (Mexico)

  • Created a new time zone America/Ciudad_Juarez and mapped it to Mountain Standard Time (Mexico).

• This update implements the final phase of DCOM hardening as described in KB5004442. This phase removes the ability to disable changes through the registry.

• Known issue resolved: When an existing computer account is reused to join a computer to an Active Directory domain, the join is unsuccessful. Additionally, the following error occurs on devices that have installed Windows updates released on or after October 11, 2022:

  Error 0xaac (2732): NERR_AccountReuseBlockedByPolicy: “An account with the same name exists in Active Directory. Re-using the account was blocked by security policy.” 

  For more information about this new behavior, see KB5020276—Netjoin: Domain join hardening changes.

For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, please refer to the Deployments | Security Update Guide and the March 2023 Security Updates.

Known issues in this update

We are currently not aware of any issues with this update.

How to get this update

Before installing this update

We strongly recommend that you install the latest servicing stack update (SSU) for your operating system before you install the latest Monthly Rollup. SSUs improve the reliability of the update process to mitigate potential issues while installing the Monthly Rollup and applying Microsoft security fixes. For general information about SSUs, see Servicing stack updates and Servicing Stack Updates (SSU): Frequently Asked Questions.

If you use Windows Update, the latest SSU (KB5023790) will be offered to you automatically. To get the standalone package for the latest SSU, search for it in the Microsoft Update Catalog.

Language packs

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File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update KB5023765.

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