Microsoft has officially announced that the native NVMe storage support feature, which was previously outlined in the Windows Server 2025 development roadmap, has now reached general availability with the release of the October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835). Currently, this feature is in a voluntary enablement phase, meaning system administrators need to manually activate it through either the registry settings or group policy configurations. However, this particular update has inadvertently led to a malfunction where USB keyboards and mice cease to function within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), thereby disrupting system recovery procedures. Microsoft is actively probing into the root cause of this issue and is in the process of formulating a solution. In the meantime, the company advises users to create a restore point or resort to alternative recovery methods prior to applying the update. For enterprise users, it is strongly recommended to conduct thorough testing before proceeding with a large-scale deployment of this update.
