IT News on October 10th: Technology media NeoWin reported yesterday (October 9th) that Microsoft has urgently notified various organizations that browsers based on Chromium may experience issues with remote desktop Web access (RD Web Access) in Windows Server after the update in November.
Google has announced that it plans to stop supporting the XSLT client in the middle of November 2026 for the Chromium browser. Note from IT: The full name of XSLT is Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, which literally translates to Extensible Style Sheets Language Conversion. It is a set of rules used to convert XML documents into other formats or structures.
Websites can utilize browser-side XSLT to process XML data and generate displayable content. However, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services browser portal RD Web Access relies on this technology for page conversion. Therefore, if the support for these relevant browsers is discontinued, it may result in users being unable to access the page normally.
Regarding the deactivation of XSLT, Google stated that there were mainly two reasons. Firstly, its usage rate was low; the client XSLT accounted for only about 0.02% of the total web traffic. Secondly, there were security risks, as the libxslt used by Chromium belonged to a complex and outdated C/C++ code library. Such code may contain memory security vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows.
As a workaround, Microsoft has released an update KB5130993. Administrators can set the value of XSLTEnabled for Microsoft Edge or Chrome to 1 through policies or the registry, to temporarily restore the handling of XSLT on the client side.
Microsoft also lists the HTML5 Web client solution. After users log in to the client, they can directly initiate a remote desktop session in their browser or download the RDP file. Another option is to enable the IE mode within Microsoft Edge and add the RD Web address to the list of relevant pages. When opening the portal for the first time, Edge may request permission for the ActiveX function to support single sign-on using the credentials of logged-in users.












