Microsoft confirms 2 new Windows 10 upgrade blocks version 1903

Microsoft has removed three upgrade blocks from the list of issues affecting upgrades to the company's Windows 10 operating system version 1903.

We noted in the article yesterday that users were facing new problems that Microsoft had not officially confirmed at the time, even though they seemed sufficiently widespread for justify at least one listing on the bug tracking list.

On July 12, 2019, Microsoft confirmed the release of two new issues deemed serious enough to prevent computers affected by these issues from upgrading to Windows 10 version 1903.

One problem relates exclusively to Surface Book 2 devices, the other confirms the problem of black screen reported by Remote Desktop.

Number Surface Book 2

Microsoft has confirmed a problem with Surface Book 2 devices, causing some graphics-intensive operations to fail on the device after upgrading to Windows 10 version 1903

The dGPU can sometimes disappear from the Surface Book 2 device manager with dGPU

Microsoft has identified a compatibility issue on some Surface Book 2 devices configured with the Nvidia discrete graphics processing unit (dGPU). After upgrading to Windows 10, version 1903 (May 2019 feature update), some applications or games that require graphics-intensive operations may close or not open.

Microsoft suggests that administrators who upgraded Surface Book 2 devices to Windows 10 version 1903 restart it again when this occurs or perform a manual scan of hardware changes in Device Manager.

Black screen problem of remote desktop

The second confirmed problem is for devices with certain GPU hardware in the Intel 4 chipset that have remote connections established. The problem can occur on any device initiating the remote connection and users may notice that the screen remains black after the connection is established.

Initializing a remote desktop connection can generate a black screen

When establishing a remote desktop connection to devices with older GPU drivers, a black screen may appear. Any version of Windows may experience this problem when establishing a remote desktop connection with a Windows 10, version 1903 device running an affected display driver, including the graphics processor drivers integrated Intel chipset 4 (iGPU).

Microsoft did not offer a workaround for the problem at the time, but Günter Born released a workaround on his site a few hours ago to solve the problem.

In addition to upgrading the graphics driver on the affected devices if possible, Born suggests administrators to disable the use of the WDDM graphical display driver for RD connections in Group Policy available under Windows Components> Remote Desktop Services> Remote Desktop Session Host> Remote Session Environment.

Now, it's your turn: Are you concerned about these problems?

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