Microsoft Extends Windows Server 2022 Hotpatching Through October 2027
Summary
Microsoft extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching through October 2027 for enrolled Datacenter: Azure Edition systems, allowing monthly security updates without restarts. Other updates may still require reboots; broader default enablement is planned for May 2026.
Key points
- Hotpatch support for enrolled Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition systems now runs through October 2027.
- Hotpatching applies monthly security updates to running processes without requiring a restart.
- Regular Windows updates, including non-security updates, and non-Windows updates such as .NET patches may still require reboots.
- Microsoft plans to enable hotpatch security updates by default for eligible devices managed through Microsoft Graph API and Intune starting with the May 2026 security update.
- The hotpatch extension is limited to eligible Datacenter: Azure Edition systems enrolled in hotpatch updates.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Microsoft extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatch support for eligible systems through October 2027.
- Impact
- Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition systems enrolled in hotpatch updates can continue receiving monthly security updates without restarting. Regular Windows, .NET, and other non-hotpatch updates may still require a reboot. Microsoft plans to enable hotpatch security updates by default for eligible devices managed through Microsoft Graph API and Microsoft Intune starting with the May 2026 security update.
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Microsoft Graphupdates may still require rebooting, and Microsoft plans broader hotpatch enablement through Microsoft Graph API and Microsoft Intune in May 2026.Microsoft Intunerequire rebooting, and Microsoft plans broader hotpatch enablement through Microsoft Graph API and Microsoft Intune in May 2026.Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure EditionMicrosoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching support through October 2027 for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition systems enrolled in hotpatch updates.