Microsoft acknowledged that its October 2026 Windows 11 updates did not actually resolve a problem affecting Always On VPN connections, despite initially marking the issue as fixed. The company mistakenly changed the status to resolved on October 13 before correcting course days later. Microsoft stated that a permanent fix would arrive in the coming weeks and apologized for the confusion caused by the erroneous update.
The Always On VPN bug, which emerged after September security updates, caused connections to fail or remain stuck in a connecting state when automatic protocol selection was enabled. While working on a permanent solution, Microsoft provided a temporary workaround requiring IT administrators to configure VPN profiles to use either SSTP or IKEv2 protocol exclusively rather than allowing automatic selection. This issue represents one of several problems introduced by September updates affecting Windows systems.
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