KB4023057: Update Health Tools—Windows Update Service components (2024)

Summary

Microsoft Update Health Tools is offered to devices through Windows Update as update KB4023057. This update is applicable for both Windows consumer and commercial devices, with a slightly different purpose and functionality.

• On Windows consumer devices, this update helps remediate smooth functioning of Windows Update.

• For commercial devices, this update is recommended for Windows Update for Business (WUfB) Deployment Service for managing Feature and Quality Updates.

The Microsoft Update Health Tools is required for Expediting security updates through Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Graph.

This update should automatically install if your device is connected to Windows Updates services and allows automatic updates. If your device isn't regularly receiving quality updates, because of low disk space or have low activity, this may prevent the device from installing the Update Health Tools. If you currently don't have the client installed, you can then try triggering a normal Windows Update scan. Or, you can manuallydownload and install Update Health Toolsfrom the Microsoft Download Center.

To verify that Update Health Tools has successfully installed, do the following:

• Look for the installation files at this location (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Update Health Tools).

  

• Commercial customers can check whether the Microsoft Update Health service is running on the device.

  

You might have to allow the following endpoints if they are blocked in the device's firewall settings, or an upstream firewall:

• *.blob.core.windows.net port 443

• deploymentscheduler.microsoft.com port 443

• Devicelistenerprod.microsoft.com port 443

If your tenant is in the EU region:

• devicelistenerprod.eudb.microsoft.com port 443

Important:If your device is out of support, it is no longer receiving security updates from Microsoft and may become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you update to the latest version of Windows.Each version ofWindowsissupported for 18 months. Aftersupport ends, you must update to a newer version ofWindowsto continue receiving Windows updates and security fixes. To learn more about the Windows lifecycle, seeWindows 10 lifecycle fact sheetand theWindows 11 lifecycle fact sheet.

How to get this update

NOTE All supported builds of Windows 10, version21H2and 22H2, Windows 11, version 21H2, and Windows 11, version 22H2 require this update.

File information

The English (United States) version of this software update installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

References

Expedite Windows quality updates in Microsoft Intune

Learn about the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates.