Patching Failures

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We’re getting a lot of patching failures when deploying the April 2018 Security Monthly Quality Rollup. A lot with failure code -2146885628 which translates to 80092004.

This is a lot more errors than we’ve ever seen in the past. While I don’t think it’s specific to BigFix and that it’s a patch issue - Anyone else having similar issues?

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Dan -

We use the below in an action script to delete the datastore folder and then reapply the rollup with about a 95% success rate (both april and may fails with the same error code you listed):

// Checks to see if Windows Update service is Disabled
if {start type of service “wuauserv” = “disabled”}
waithidden cmd /C sc config {“wuauserv”} start= demand
endif

// Stops Windows Update service is running
if {state of service “wuauserv” = “Running”}
waithidden net stop wuauserv
endif

// Deletes Windows Update DataStore
folder delete “C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore”

Joe

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thanks Joe. I’ll give this a try.

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I needed to reuse this code for some other patches, just FYI the quotes will break the logic and will need to be replaced with "" instead of the horrible “”

Keen