{"id":20,"date":"2010-12-17T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-05-09T10:23:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:23:51","slug":"windows-update-managed-by-your-system-administrator-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/windows-update-managed-by-your-system-administrator-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update &#8220;Managed by your system administrator&#8221; nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encountered a bizarre issue when performing a routine setup on a refurbished (read: practically brand new) Dell Studio laptop. The problem manifested itself when Windows Update was run; rather than successfully connect to the Windows Update server and download updates information, the client would return an error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Error Code 0x80072EE2<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>You receive updates: Managed by your system administrator<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of behavior is expected if your PC is set to receive Windows Updates via the WSUS service; in other words,\u00a0<em>not <\/em>from the standard Windows Updates servers. But this computer was all-new (a new Windows install) and had never had a group policy set related to this (at least, it wasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>supposed <\/em>to have had it set)!<\/p>\n<p>None of the usual Windows Update repair tools corrected the problem. Luckily, however, after a bit of research and experimentation, I devised a solution. Please note that this solution<strong>should not be performed if your computer uses a Group Policy for Windows Update<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open\u00a0<strong>RegEdit <\/strong>and navigate to<strong>HKLM\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WindowsUpdate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Remove\u00a0<strong>any <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>all <\/strong>values within this key. Most likely, the culprit is a faulty Windows Update source server. Sometimes this is the result of a latent or previous infection.<\/li>\n<li>Finally,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/971058\" target=\"_new\">download and run Microsoft FixIt<\/a> 50202. Try the Default settings first, and if that does not work, try Aggressive.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the computer and check to see that Windows Update is working properly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>An annoying issue to be sure, but at least this solution works! Please let me know if this solution has helped you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>If you&#8217;re looking for computer help in the Louisville area,\u00a0<a title=\"Triple-S Computers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/\">look no further<\/a>. \u00a0Call me today and get it done right!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Never bother with Windows Update again. \u00a0If you&#8217;re a repair tech or sysadmin, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuinstall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WUInstall Pro<\/a> today!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encountered a bizarre issue when performing a routine setup on a refurbished (read: practically brand new) Dell Studio laptop. The problem manifested itself when Windows Update was run; rather than successfully connect to the Windows Update server and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/windows-update-managed-by-your-system-administrator-nightmare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,22,23,21,24],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","tag-dell-outlet","tag-policy-issues","tag-registry-errors","tag-windows-update-error","tag-wsus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}