Abstract

• Microsoft has acknowledged ongoing Home windows 11 24H2 distant desktop points, and it is now rolling out a repair.
• Distant desktop issues embrace disconnects and freezes, even when a connection is efficiently established at first.
• A repair is now being distributed through KIR, and it might take 24-48 hours to use to all affected customers.

For those who’ve tried to make use of distant desktop in your Home windows 11 pc after putting in the 24H2 main replace, you may need discovered the expertise to be lower than superb. Now, Microsoft has acknowledged this, and a repair is on the way in which.

Microsoft has confirmed that there have been ongoing points with the Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Home windows 11 model 24H2 and is at present within the technique of rolling out an emergency server-side replace to deal with the issue. The repair shall be delivered through the Identified Subject Rollback (KIR) system, which can take 24 to 48 hours to robotically attain affected methods.

The problem itself causes customers to expertise surprising disconnections or freezes throughout Distant Desktop periods. You would possibly, for one, be capable of efficiently set up an RDP connection, just for the session to hold or freeze shortly after, typically displaying spinning dots on the login display that cease responding. This freeze can happen even when the underlying distant session stays energetic, which may generally be verified by connecting to the server through different means, like SSH. Some experiences additionally indicated connection glitches occurring round 65 seconds after establishing a session.

However the gist of it, for many customers, is that the connection glitches out after a set time frame even when it is efficiently established at first. The fixed between all customers is that the overwhelming majority of them run Home windows 11 24H2.

In case you have been questioning, sure, this has been occurring for months. The rollout of this repair follows months of person experiences and difficulties surrounding RDP stability on the most recent Home windows 11 model. Issues with Distant Desktop on model 24H2 have been famous for the reason that newest main improve to Home windows 11 was initially launched, nevertheless it turned considerably extra widespread following the elective updates issued in January 2025. In late February 2025, Microsoft up to date its official documentation to acknowledge that it was investigating experiences of RDP failures. Then, it advised that the KB5052093 replace (the elective patch for February) had resolved these points.

Nonetheless, issues persevered and have been noticed even after the March 2025 cumulative updates have been put in. Microsoft has now acknowledged that the March 2025 safety replace (KB5053598) not solely failed to repair the RDP issues however really led to a “vital enhance in experiences” of the problem, worsening the state of affairs for a lot of customers. It has been a heck of a rollercoaster up to now for customers who depend upon this characteristic, nevertheless it’s apparently coming to an finish in the end.

The repair is at present being distributed from Microsoft’s servers and will robotically apply to affected shopper gadgets and non-managed enterprise gadgets inside one to 2 days. Microsoft advises that restarting the affected Home windows system could assist apply the KIR repair extra rapidly as soon as it turns into out there to the machine. Enterprise-managed gadgets could require directors to put in and configure particular KIR Group Insurance policies to resolve the problem inside their environments. So in the event you’ve been affected by points along with your distant desktop expertise, maybe wait till this challenge is rolled out and retry what you have been doing.

Supply: Windows Latest