{"id":446,"date":"2008-11-19T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/?p=446"},"modified":"2008-11-19T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T12:37:40","slug":"windows-update-not-working-or-fails-reset-windows-update-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update Not Working or Fails; Reset Windows Update Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is mostly seen with WSUS but I have run into it from time to time through regular day to day items.<\/p>\n

While working on a server today I kept being informed that the Windows Updates were failing. When checking the Windows Update log file I found the error. From there I went about fixing it.<\/p>\n

Turns out the junior guys were confused as I said \u201cAh.\u201d and dropped to a command prompt. That reminded me that sometimes I really need to explain what is going on in my head to others.<\/p>\n

This issue is really easy to fix. It usually happens when there is a problem with the installation of an update. In this case I found that the C: drive was in the middle of compressing files and it so happened that one of the folders was the \u201csoftwaredistribution\u201d folder where updates are stored to be installed.<\/p>\n

Here is what you need to do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open a command prompt<\/strong>. (If you don\u2019t know how please contact a technical support person)<\/li>\n
  2. regsvr32 \/u wuaueng.dll<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. del C:\\WINDOWS\\SOFTWAREDISTRIBUTION<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. del C:\\WINDOWSUPDATE.log<\/strong> (if this tells you that it is in use just go to the next step).<\/li>\n
  5. Regsvr32 wuaueng.dll<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Net start wuauserv<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Wuauclt.exe \/resetauthorization \/detectnow<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There you go, you should be able to request Windows Updates and they will download and install as you expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is mostly seen with WSUS but I have run into it from time to time through regular day to day items. While working on a server today I kept being informed that the Windows Updates were failing. When checking the Windows Update log file I found the error. From there I went about fixing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windowsupate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}