Microsoft rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 yesterday. For the former, the release primarily contains security patches, but for the latter, there are several other fixes and enhancements in tow too. One of those is related to a pesky Windows Firewall issue that cropped up recently.
About a week ago, Microsoft acknowledged an issue in the June 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 11 (KB5060829), which resulted in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security logging an error event. That said, the company emphasized to customers that there is nothing to worry about as this particular log does not indicate any malfunction in Windows Firewall, and is just related to an upcoming feature that has not been fully developed yet. It informed IT admins that they don't need to take any action to resolve this issue and can either ignore it or filter it out from Event Viewer.
With the latest Patch Tuesday updates that became available for Windows 11, version 24H2 yesterday (KB5062553), Microsoft has confirmed that this Windows Firewall problem has now been fully resolved. The updated Windows Release Health dashboard entry does not reveal any other details, but it does urge customers to install the latest Patch Tuesday update in order to get rid of the faulty error log.
For those interested in the details, the error was being logged as Event 2042 each time the device was restarted. It was listed as Config Read Failed with an additional message noting that "More data is available". It wasn't a major concern for IT admins and customers since this faulty error event did not impact any of the operating system's operations or processes, but Microsoft first acknowledged this problem on July 2, so it's nice to see the company rolling out the patch in an efficient manner.
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