""=="" was unexpected at this time error

[Denniss]

Please open c:\windows\wsusofflinupdate.log with a texteditor like notepad and post the content of this file.
What's the username on the affected machines (The name of the user account you are running the computer with?
-> maybe one of our scripts has problems if the username contains special characters.

Are you able to create a new user account with admin rights on these machines ?
Try a new user like "update", give him Admin rights and reboot to this user. Try to install the updates again.

[Macphisto]

Please open c:\windows\wsusofflinupdate.log with a texteditor like notepad and post the content of this file.
What's the username on the affected machines (The name of the user account you are running the computer with?
-> maybe one of our scripts has problems if the username contains special characters.

Are you able to create a new user account with admin rights on these machines ?
Try a new user like "update", give him Admin rights and reboot to this user. Try to install the updates again.

The username is all standard characters and the user is in the Administrator's group. I can add a new user to test if you like. I took at wsusofflineupdate.log and copied the notes by hand.

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Info: Starting WSUS Offline Update (v. 6.7.2) on XXXXX ( User: XXXXADMIN)
Info: Option /nobackup detected
Info: Option /showlog detected
Info: Found OS Caption 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional'
Info: Found Microsoft Windows Version 5.1.2600 (wxp x86 enu sp3)
Info: Found Windows Update Agent version 7.4.7600.226
Info: Found Windows Installer version 4.5.6001.22159
Info: Found Windows Script Host version 5.8.6001.23000
Info: Found Internet Explorer version 8.0.6001.23000
Info: Found Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.81.1132.0
Info: Found Microsoft DirectX version 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Info: Found Windows Media Player version 11.0.5721.5280
Info: Found Terminal Services Client version 6.1.7600.16385
Info: Found Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 version 3.5.30729.01
Info: Found Microsoft .Net Framework 4 version 4.0.30319
Info: Found Microsoft Security Essentials definitions version 0.0.0.0
Info: Found Windows Defender definitions version 0.0.0.0
Info: Found Windows Powershell version 1.0
Info: Found Microsoft Office 2003 Word Version 11.0.8326.0 (o2k3 enu sp3)
Info: Medium build date: Wed
Info: Medium supports Microsoft Windows
Info: Medium supports Microsoft Office
Info: Detected state of service 'automatic updates': Running (start mode: Auto)
Warning: Update KB973923 not found
Info: Skipped update KB890830 due to matching black list entry
Warning: Update KB2463332 not found


Thanks
Mac

[boco]

Would you like to do a test?

1. Create a directory C:\TEMP
2. Open the System properties of the affected machine.
3. Navigate to the Advanced tab and press ''Environment Variables''.
4. In the ''User variables for <yourusername>'' section, double click both the TEMP and TMP variables and enter C:\TEMP as Variable value. Just for easy reversal, the default is ''%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\TEMP''.
5. After setting both to C:\TEMP, log out and on again. That should initialize the variables properly. To be absolutely sure, restart the machine.
6. Test installing the updates again. There is a much better chance of success as you are now using a short TEMP path with no spaces.

Please tell us the result.

[Macphisto]

I will request access to the machine and test on Tuesday EST. Thanks again.

[Neb]

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=589#p3086

At the begining of SafeRmDir.cmd changing

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if "%1"=="" goto NoParam

to
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if '%1'=='' goto NoParam

seems to solve the problem which is caused by the double-double quotes.

This seems to have resolved the issue for me; I believe the problem may be due to the disabled 8.3 name generation...

[boco]

You should have mentioned that. I think even Microsoft warns about possible consequences.

[Neb]

The machines I'm working with are rather locked down, so it was difficult narrowing down what could possible be causing it. Even now I'm just making an educated guess.

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Thank you.

Since this seems to be a "safe" fix, I integrated it for v. 6.8.

RTW

[Rassilon]

sorry to dig up an old thread but i think this error has made a comeback in v8.3 (regression?)

i installed yesterday the updates on a few systems and on each one of them it kept showing this message. (screenshot in attachment)

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

http://trac.wsusoffline.net/browser/trunk (r460).
GTW