Fixing RDP authentication issues that KB5074109 causes with the Windows App on Windows 11

This issue affected a couple of my clients, and some of them asked if I would write a blog on how this can now be resolved, so here is my first “out-of-band” blog!

Microsoft released KB5077744 that resolves this issue.  However, currently it is not available on any of the update platforms and needs to be downloaded and deployed “manually.”  Here is a quick way to deploy this update as a Win 32 app using Intune.

  1. Download the appropriate update from the Microsoft Update Catalog.
  2. The update is going to have a long name, rename it to something shorter.  In this example, I renamed the MSU file to “windows11.0-kb5077744-x64.msu.”

Big Chris Recommends: You don’t HAVE to do this step, but I have seen Intune “choke” on long file names for the setup file in a Win32 app.  Plus, it can be easier to keep up with the setup file if it doesn’t have a crazy long name.

3. Use the Win32 Content Prep Tool to build your Win32 application package

4. Upload the INTUNEWIN package to Intune.

5. Configure the install/uninstall command under “Program” with the following command lines/settings.

6. Add your required settings to “Requirements.”

7. In a text editor of your choosing, create the following PowerShell script:

$KB = “KB5077744”

$HotFix = Get-HotFix -Id $KB -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if ($HotFix) {

Write-Output “$KB is installed.”

exit 0 # Detected

} else {

Write-Output “$KB is NOT installed.”

exit 1 # Not Detected

}

8. In “Script file,” browse to where this script is saved and upload the script.  Leave all the other settings here the same.

9. Review, save, and deploy to a test group.

Once this KB is installed, your Windows clients should no longer have authentication issues to AVD/W365 environments using the Windows App!



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