Dalai wrote:saegiru wrote:When you say the catalog file, do you mean wsusscn2.cab?
Yes.
[...] it runs for a few minutes, then just ends abruptly [...]
OK, I thought it would abort the operation immediately. Well, then it's probably something else the WUA (Windows Update Agent) doesn't like. Please do the following: open PowerShell, enter
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Get-WindowsUpdateLog > c:\somefile.log
(replacing C:\somefile.log with the location of where you want to save the output), upload the generated file somewhere and post a link to it here. It's probably a good idea to compress the file before uploading because it may get quite large.
Regards
Dalai
The systems I work on are confidential, and I am not allowed to take anything off and upload it here, but do you have any keywords or specific things I could look for in the logs? I browsed through them but didn't see anything that stood out so far.
aker wrote:If it‘s Windows 7 we can use the easy method:
Please upload c:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log somewhere and post a link here.
Also try this:
Manually copy wsusscn2.cab to %temp% and open an admin-CMD.
Then go to your wsusou share using „pushd“ or „cd /d“ (to be exact: ...\client\cmd) and run „cscript ListMissingUpdateIds.vbs“. Does it throw the same error?
Another attempt (be warned, this will delete all WU settings such as Auto-Update, hidden updates, ...):
- stop the „Windows Update“ service
- clear „C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\“ (do not delete the folder itself, just all of its content)
It is Windows 10 v1809 - not Win 7, and I also cannot upload the logs here. I did try your copying the cab and running the script directly - it shows the exact same error. Again, I watched the %TEMP% directory and no missingupdate file was ever created (or if it was, it was created and deleted faster than my eyes could see).
I also tried stopping the service and deleting the folder, but that made no difference either.
In addition, I have tried using the powershell script that resets Windows Update, rebooted - also no changes.
Regardless of all of this, thank you all for the help so far! I really appreciate it.