[SOLVED] Windows Updates Failing on Server 2012

cschneer · Feb 12, 2017

Good morning and welcome to my nightmare,

One of my production servers is failing when installing updates. About 190 updates have been queued up and are unable to install successfully. Windows will roll back any changes once rebooted. I have tried a number of fixes that i've found on the internet such as; DISM repairs, SFC scans, reinstalling the windows update agent etc with no success.

I have tried to run SFCfix but it fails saying "failed to check for updates"

CBS logs are located at this link - U

I tried to use your large file uploader but as i mention above. SFCFix doesn't work with my server. Following instructions did not help, i still get the "Failed to check for updates" message. If i failed to follow the rules of this forum i apologize.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

- Corey

BrianDrab · Feb 13, 2017

Hi and welcome to Sysnative. Please do the following so I can gather more info.

Step#1 - Export Publishers Key

Click on the Start button type regedit
When you see regedit on the list, right-click on it and select Run as administrator
When regedit opens, using the left pane, navigate to the following registry key and select it by clicking on it once.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Publishers
Once selected, click File > Export....
Change the Save as type: to Registry Hive Files (*.*)
Name this file PUB (with no file extension) and save it to your Desktop.

Once done please upload this file via Dropbox or One Drive or SendSpace.

cschneer · Feb 13, 2017

BrianDrab said:
Hi and welcome to Sysnative. Please do the following so I can gather more info.

Step#1 - Export Publishers Key

Click on the Start button type regedit

When you see regedit on the list, right-click on it and select Run as administrator

When regedit opens, using the left pane, navigate to the following registry key and select it by clicking on it once.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Publishers

Once selected, click File > Export....

Change the Save as type: to Registry Hive Files (*.*)

Name this file PUB (with no file extension) and save it to your Desktop.

Once done please upload this file via Dropbox or One Drive or SendSpace.

Here is the link to the PUB file. Thank you for the quick response.

BrianDrab · Feb 13, 2017

No problem. Please download the following reg file to your desktop.
Then right-click on the file and merge into your registry. Please let me know if it says successfully merged.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6063925/Sysnative/Logs/Staff/22219/Fix1/Fix.reg

cschneer · Feb 13, 2017

The merge was successful.

BrianDrab · Feb 13, 2017

Go ahead and try one of your Windows Updates that weren't working.

cschneer · Feb 13, 2017

I ran a few updates of different types and they appeared to fail or succeed at random. I am having some success which is definitely a step in the right direction. Here is the latest set of logs.

BrianDrab · Feb 13, 2017

Can you keep checking for updates and installing until all of them that can install do and only the ones that don't remain?

cschneer · Feb 13, 2017

Just tried. 95% of the updates have failed.

BrianDrab · Feb 13, 2017

OK. Attempt to install only one of the updates and let me know the KB number of the update. Once the update fails, please provide me with the c:\windows\logs\cbs\CBS.log.

cschneer · Feb 17, 2017

BrianDrab said:
OK. Attempt to install only one of the updates and let me know the KB number of the update. Once the update fails, please provide me with the c:\windows\logs\cbs\CBS.log.

MY problem is solved. Thank you so much!! I am marking the thread as solved.

BrianDrab · Feb 17, 2017

No problem. Take care.

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