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Microsoft has finally fixed a known issue that was causing systems running Windows Server 2019 and 2022 to “unexpectedly” upgrade to Windows Server 2025.<\/p>\n
The issue was first acknowledged<\/a> by Microsoft in September 2024, following widespread<\/a> reports<\/a> from<\/a> Windows admins regarding servers that had been automatically upgraded overnight to a Windows Server version for which they didn’t even have a license.<\/p>\n Microsoft said that organizations that wanted to perform in-place upgrades were offered a Windows Server 2025 upgrade via a banner on the Windows Update settings page.<\/p>\n It also blamed the issue on third-party update management software that wasn’t correctly configured, but the software makers said<\/a> the upgrade problems were caused by a “procedural error on Microsoft side, both with the speed of release and the classification.”<\/p>\n Microsoft didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment when BleepingComputer reached out at the time for more details on the root cause of the automated upgrades.<\/p>\n This week, after more than a year, Microsoft said it had finally addressed the known issue and that customers can once again check for upgrades through the Settings app.<\/p>\n “This issue is resolved and Microsoft has re-enabled the upgrade offer via the Windows Update settings panel,” the company said<\/a> in a Windows release health update on Tuesday.<\/p>\n “For more information on Feature Update from the Windows Server Setting Dialog, see Perform an in-place upgrade of Windows Server<\/a> at Microsoft Learn.”<\/p>\n Last month, Microsoft released an out-of-band update<\/a> to fix the March 2026 non-security preview update pulled due to installation issues.<\/p>\n Less than a week earlier, it pushed another emergency update<\/a> that resolved a major issue triggered by the March Patch Tuesday security updates, which broke sign-ins with Microsoft accounts across multiple Microsoft apps, including Edge, Teams, OneDrive, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.<\/p>\n Two other out-of-band updates were also issued last month to address a Bluetooth device visibility bug<\/a> and several security vulnerabilities<\/a> in the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) management tool affecting Windows 11 Enterprise devices.<\/p>\n