Microsoft Issues Urgent Fix for Windows Server 2019 Update Failures

Patch Tuesday security update failed due to language pack issues, prompting an out-of-band update to resolve installation errors.

The May 2024 Patch Tuesday update for Windows Server 2019 failed to install on systems without the U.S. English language pack.
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update to address the installation issues and enable the security fixes.
Admins must install the out-of-band update and restart their servers to apply the original security patch successfully.
Error codes 0x800f0982 and 0x80004005 were reported by users experiencing the installation failures.
The issue primarily affected non-English language servers but could also impact those with the English language pack.