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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

Sorry for the delay, got my first child so I'm in the hospital most of the time. I cloud replace the COMPONENTS file and the server started. DISM completed with the message the the components store was repaired. SFC also completed but no problems were found. C:\Windows\system32>dism /online...
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- Post #12
- Aug 8, 2015
- Forum: Windows Update
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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

No other versions of the Components file are available. Is there no way to find the corrupted parts in the hive?
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- Post #9
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: Windows Update
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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

No, Updates gets overwritten, I recognized the error too late and I removed the snapshot because it was causing the crashes. But the VM is cloned from a template, I have the original copy back from December (untouched since cloning) as well as a other instance from the same source, but this one...
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- Post #7
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: Windows Update
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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

thanks for helping me ;) I did an extanded check of the ESX host but couldn't find any problems. After consolidating all snapshots on the affected VM no crashes happened again. So I hope the root course is fixed. But now to the remaining problems. I ran the SFCFixScript: SFCFix version 2.4.5.0...
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- Post #5
- Aug 4, 2015
- Forum: Windows Update
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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

I also did a chkdsk /r. No problems were found.
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- Post #2
- Aug 2, 2015
- Forum: Windows Update
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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

Dear all, since a few weeks I have a problem installing new windows updates. Windows Update quits with the error 80070246. Investigating a little bit I also found out that either sfc nor dism is not working anymore: C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth Tool zur...
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- Aug 2, 2015
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- Forum: Windows Update

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80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2

80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER when trying to run windows update on 2012 R2