[Changelog] What’s New in Windows 10 November 2021 Update (Version 21H2)

Microsoft has announced about Windows 10 21H2 feature update which will be a small update or service pack for Windows 10 and will be released in second half of 2021 i.e. later this year.

21H2 will come with limited new features and changes focused on productivity, security and management. It’ll be delivered via Windows Updates in form of a regular cumulative update.

At the moment, 21H2 is available for testing to Windows Insiders who are registered on Release Preview channel. Interested Windows 10 users can start testing these preview builds to test drive new features and changes and to help Microsoft in fixing bugs and issues.

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In this exclusive 21H2 changelog article, we’ll list all changes, improvements and new features found in all Windows 10 21H2 Insider Preview builds. It’ll help you in understanding what changes and new features are going to become a part of the upcoming 21H2 feature update for Windows 10.

So let’s start the changelog of Windows 10 21H2 builds:

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1147?

Build 19044.1147 was the 1st Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on July 15, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Fixed an issue with searchindexer.
• Changed the functionality for uploading new activity into Timeline. If you sync your activity history across your devices using your Microsoft account (MSA), you cannot upload new activity into the Timeline. You can still use Timeline and see your activity history (information about recent apps, websites, and files) on your local device. This does not affect Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts. To view web history, Microsoft Edge and other browsers provide the option to view recent web activities. You can also view recently used files using Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Office.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1149?

Build 19044.1149 was the 2nd Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on July 20, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Added a new policy that creates generic strings and removes branding-specific terms, such as “Windows” or “PC”, for IoT Enterprise editions. For example, Microsoft changed “computer” to “device”. Instead of “Getting Windows ready,” Microsoft changed that to “Getting things ready” and so on. These generic strings are displayed on a user’s screen when an update is in progress.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1200?

Build 19044.1200 was the 3rd Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on August 18, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Adding WPA3 H2E standards support for enhanced Wi-Fi security.
• Windows Hello for Business introduces a new deployment method called cloud trust to support simplified passwordless deployments and achieve a deploy-to-run state within a few minutes.
• GPU compute support in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) deployments for machine learning and other compute intensive workflows.
• Added the “Target Product Version” policy. With this, administrators can specify the Windows product they want devices to migrate to or remain on (for example, Windows 10 or Windows 11).
• Increased the default number of entries in the local security authority (LSA) Lookup Cache to improve lookup performance in high lookup volume scenarios.
• Enabled over 1400 new mobile device management (MDM) policies. With them, you can configure policies that Group Policies also support. These new MDM policies include administrative template (ADMX) policies, such as App Compat, Event Forwarding, Servicing, and Task Scheduler. Starting in September 2021, you can use the Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) Settings Catalog to configure these new MDM policies.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1202?

Build 19044.1202 was the 4th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on August 31, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Fixed an issue that causes the Windows Update settings page to stop responding after you download an optional update.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1263?

Build 19044.1263 was the 5th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on September 23, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Provided administrators the option to reset the zoom to the default for HTML dialogs in Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode.
• Removed the limitation of 25 maximum Traffic Selectors in the Windows native Internet Key Exchange (IKE) client and server.
• Improved the performance of MsSense.exe in environments with User Datagram Protocol (UDP) applications that require high amounts of bandwidth.
• Removed a hyperlink that might cause the Input app to stop working when you first enter fuzzy pinyin content.
• Implemented a Group Policy for the registry key: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PointAndPrint and Value: RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1319?

Build 19044.1319 was the 6th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on October 19, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Added a feature that facilitates certain cross-browser data transfers.
• Enhanced Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s ability to identify and intercept ransomware and advanced attacks.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1320?

Build 19044.1320 was the 7th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on October 26, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Fixed a known issue that might prevent the successful installation of printers using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1379?

Build 19044.1379 was the 8th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on November 16, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Added support for the cancellation of daylight savings time for the Republic of Fiji for 2021.
• Added the -cd argument to wsl.exe to specify a Windows or Linux path as a starting directory for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
• Added the option to configure an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) maximum transmission unit (MTU) that is less than 576 bytes on an interface.
• Enabled onunload events to create pop-up windows in Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode.
• Enabled credentials for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users in Quick Assist.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1381?

Build 19044.1381 was the 9th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on November 18, 2021. It came with following features and fixes:

• Includes all the improvements present in previous build.
• Fixed an issue that might affect devices that use Windows Hello for Business and are joined to Azure Active Directory (AD). These devices might experience issues when they access on-premises resources, such as file shares or websites.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1499?

Build 19044.1499 was the 10th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on January 14, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Updated daylight saving time to start in February 2022 instead of March 2022 in Jordan.
• Added parameters that pass to wmic.exe in telemetry to capture additional usage data to address application compatibility concerns.
• Added a reminder to Internet Explorer 11 that notifies users of its upcoming retirement.
• Updated the phone number for Windows Activation for locales that have the wrong phone number.
• Added a new feature that provides direct access to select your Microsoft Edge profiles from News & interests. You can also go to Microsoft Edge directly from News & interests in the same corresponding profile.
• Added a new feature called Sync Your Settings for users who are migrating to Windows 11, original release. You’ll use Sync Your Settings to automatically back up a list of your applications to your Microsoft Account. Then, you can quickly restore those applications on a Windows 11, original release device.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1618?

Build 19044.1618 was the 11th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on March 14, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Addition of Search highlights feature
• Ability to change the color of toast buttons to identify success and critical scenarios more easily for apps that send notifications using Windows notifications in the OS. This feature also makes notifications more visually compact.
• Added a new policy that expands an app’s top three notifications by default in the Action Center for apps that send notifications using Windows notifications in the OS. This feature displays multiple notifications that you can interact with simultaneously.
• Added support for Microsoft Account (MSA) Pass-through scenarios in Azure Active Directory (AAD) Web Account Manager (WAM).
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1679?

Build 19044.1679 was the 12th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on April 14, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Added improvements for servicing the Secure Boot component of Windows.
• Changed the timeout for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) registration from 60 minutes to 90 minutes for hybrid Azure AD-joined Autopilot scenarios. This also addresses a race condition that causes an exception at timeout.
• Reduced the overhead of resource contention in high input/output operations per second (IOPS) scenarios that have many threads contending on a single file.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1739?

Build 19044.1739 was the 13th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on May 23, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Search highlights deployed to devices that are domain-joined.
• Prevents users from bypassing forced enrollment by disconnecting from the internet when they sign into Azure Active Directory (AAD).
• New sorting version 6.4.3, which addresses the sorting issue that affects Japanese half-width katakana.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1741?

Build 19044.1741 was the 14th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on June 02, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• [Fixed] An issue that prevents the file system control code (FSCTL_SET_INTEGRITY_INFORMATION_EX) from handling its input parameter correctly.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1806?

Build 19044.1806 was the 15th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on June 24, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Introduced following Print and Scan features: IPP over USB support, Print support app (PSA) APIs, PIN-protected printing for IPP and Universal Print and eSCL Mopria Scan protocol support.
• Enabled InternetExplorerModeEnableSavePageAs group policy which allows “Save page as” in Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge.
• Added IP address auditing for incoming Windows Remote Management (WinRM) connections in security event 4262 and WinRM event 91. This fixed an issue that fails to log the source IP address and machine name for a remote PowerShell connection.
• Added Server Message Block (SMB) redirector (RDR) specific public File System Control (FSCTL) code FSCTL_LMR_QUERY_INFO.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1862?

Build 19044.1862 was the 16th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on July 18, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Added ability to consent to receive urgent notifications when focus assist is on.
• Restored functionality for Windows Autopilot deployment scenarios that are affected by the security mitigation for hardware reuse. This update removed the one-time use restriction for self-deploying mode (SDM) and pre-provisioning (PP). This update also re-enabled any User Principal Name (UPN) display in user-driven mode (UDM) deployments for approved manufacturers.
• Reduced the overhead of resource contention in high input/output operations per second (IOPS) scenarios that have many threads contending on a single file.
• Improved the reliability of a push-button reset after an OS upgrade.
• Updated the Remove-Item cmdlet to properly interact with Microsoft OneDrive folders.
• Added functionality that caches additional audio endpoint information to improve the OS upgrade experience.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1947?

Build 19044.1947 was the 17th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on August 15, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• IT admins can now remotely add languages and language-related features. Additionally, they can now manage language scenarios across several endpoint managers.
• Enhancements to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s ability to identify and intercept ransomware and advanced attacks.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

What’s New in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.2075?

Build 19044.2075 was the 18th Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 (after official announcement) released to “Release Preview” channel. It was released on September 15, 2022. It came with following features and fixes:

• Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 turned off by default in Microsoft browsers and applications.
• Added the ability to search for the controls for news and interests on the taskbar and modify them using the Settings app. To change your settings, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > News and interests. Otherwise, right-click the taskbar and select Taskbar settings.
• Supported all taskbar orientations for news and interests. A top, left, or right taskbar now has features and settings much like the horizontal taskbar.
• Introduced WebAuthn redirection. It lets you authenticate in apps and on websites without a password when you use Remote Desktop. Then, you can use Windows Hello or security devices, such as Fast Identity Online 2.0 (FIDO2) keys.
• Introduced functionality that lets you use Azure Active Directory (AD) authentication to sign in to Windows using Remote Desktop. Then, you can use Windows Hello or security devices, such as Fast Identity Online 2.0 (FIDO2) keys, for remote sign in. It also enables the use of Conditional Access policies.
• Introduced a Group Policy that enables and disables Microsoft HTML Application (MSHTA) files.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

We’ll keep continue updating this article as soon as a new Insider Preview build of Windows 10 21H2 is released to “Release Preview” channel on Windows Insiders program.

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