How come my clients can not connect to Windows 2016 Essentials

Jeff Gavazza 1 Reputation point
2020-08-11T20:43:35.203+00:00

I have several clients running Win10 and they had all worked properly connecting to the server running Windows Server 2016 Essentials. Now after each client got feature update 1904, they all quit connecting. So what has been the work around? I've yet been able to connect these clients using the Connector Software.

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  1. Jon Alfred Smith 541 Reputation points
    2020-08-11T21:10:14.257+00:00

    Appears to be a known issue. Take a look here. Do also read the comments, especially the two links below.

    Windows 10 1903 feature update breaks the client connector
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-essentials-and/windows-10-1903-feature-update-breaks-the-client-connector/ba-p/726834

    Please read the following blog posts (2 parts) to find the exact solution. 
    https://smulholland.me/blog/windows-update-1903-and-windows-server-connection-issues/ 
    https://smulholland.me/blog/windows-update-1903-and-windows-server-connection-issues-part-2/

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  2. Rita Hu -MSFT 9,626 Reputation points
    2020-08-12T02:45:50.833+00:00

    Hi JeffGavazza-1371,

    Thanks for your posting on Q&A.

    Please help to confirm the KB number of the feature updates which have been installed on the clients and print on the forum. This will facilitate my further analysis.

    Thanks for your patience and cooperation.

    Regards,
    Rita

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