Expectations and resultsĪs the changes in the cumulative updates contain fixes, improvements and security related patches it is expected there is only a minimal impact. This research has taken place in the GO-EUC lab environment, described here, using our default testing methodology described here. The desktops are delivered using Citrix Virtual Desktops version 1811 using VM’s with 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory. No additional updates for Microsoft Office 2016 have been installed. As the cumulative updates include previous updates, only the latest cumulative update is installed. The updates have been downloaded and installed individually on a clean Windows 10 release. This way it shows if there is an impact with newer updates. The following cumulative releases are included in this research: DateĮach cumulative update will be compared in the own build version, with the oldest update as the baseline. As over time a lot of cumulative updates are released and therefore the scope has been limited to the following builds: The goal of this research is to show the impact of the cumulative updates on different Windows 10 builds. These updates are distributed with Windows updates but can also be found in the Windows Update Catalog.Įvery update has a KB id and contains details of all the changes of the specific update, for instance: Configuration and scenarios More about Cumulative UpdatesĮvery month Microsoft releases cumulative updates for Windows 10, Windows 10 LTSB, Windows Server 2016 & 2019. But do these updates have an impact on the performance in a VDI context? This research will compare different cumulative updates on different Windows 10 builds.

These updates contain improvements and fixes that will improve the quality of Windows 10. Every month Microsoft releases a cumulative update for Windows 10 and other supported operating systems.

Windows cumulative updates