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🔑 IAM

April Windows Update Enforces AES-Only Kerberos — RC4 Fallback Blocked Across Active Directory

Microsoft's April 2026 cumulative update moves Windows domain controllers into AES-only Kerberos enforcement mode, permanently blocking RC4-HMAC as an authentication fallback under CVE-2026-20833. Organisations with legacy service accounts or unmanaged devices that have not set the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute will begin seeing Kerberos authentication failures when the update is deployed.

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