‘Tis the season for plugging holes and bolstering security
Microsoft is parcelling out new features and functions this week in updates to Windows and Defender.
The company released this month’s non-security preview cumulative update for Windows 11 version 22H2, which enhances what users will see with OneDrive personal cloud storage as well as more than two dozen improvements and changes.
KB5020044 represents the final such preview release for the year.
“Because of minimal operations during the holidays and the upcoming Western new year, there won’t be a non-security preview release for the month of December 2022,” Microsoft wrote on its support page. “There will be a monthly security release… for December 2022.”
The monthly security and non-security updates will resume their normal cadence in January.
Among the highlights are OneDrive subscribers being able to more easily manage their storage environments. They will get storage alerts on the Systems page in the Settings app that will appear as they near their storage limits. Through this feature, users also can manage the storage they have and buy more if needed.
In addition, the update delivers the full amount of the storage capacity on all OneDrive subscription and displays the total storage amount on the Accounts page in Settings.
There also is a new mobile device management policy for organizational messages, giving companies the ability to enroll tenant devices in the MDM program so those devices can receive custom messages.
