Microsoft Acknowledges Issues with Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3163018

KB3163018 is the most recent cumulative update for Windows 10 released by Microsoft, but just like its predecessors, it’s impacted by several issues, some of which make it impossible to install on a number of PCs.

In an update to the original KB page, Microsoft finally acknowledges part of the issues, explaining that it’s aware of the problems caused by KB3163018 on some Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 machines.

According to the company, “administrators can't install the Web Server (IIS) server role and the ASP.NET 4.6 role service at the same time,” and the easiest workaround is to install the update and then run the following commands in an elevated command prompt:

Reports of bugs keep coming

In this case, the majority of users complained that KB3163018 failed to install successfully with an error message indicating that Windows 10 was undoing changes and reverting to the original settings.

For other users, it’s even worse, as there’s no error message displayed, and installation just fails for no clear reason.

“I do not get any error code at all my pc just sits there stuck on the restart displaying preparing windows updates. It sat like that all night I had to restart it with the reset button it pops up a notification stating could not complete the updates. Then goes through the whole thing again & again the update tool tells me that the update folder is corrupt and that it fixed the issues but you guessed it,” one user explained on Microsoft’s support forums.

For the moment, it’s not yet clear if Microsoft is also aware of these issues and if the company is investigating these reports, so if you’re also experiencing difficulties with the update, removing it completely seems to be the only way to go.