Unfinished installation of the updates

Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby radeo » 16.07.2019, 10:58

Hi everyone.

Yesterday I tried WSUS. The download of updates for Windows 8.1 went fine with UpdateGenerator, but when I ran UpdateInstaller, one didn’t finish installation in normal time.

The first update already (KB3000850) lasted for 7 hours (!) (screenshot) and still didn’t finish the installation. After seven hours I closed the console. Although the file size seems like 711 MB, I suppose 7 hours is too long.

What do you recommend? Maybe this big file could be skipped? Or should I try again and wait?

Also, since I closed the console after seven hours, the monitor dims after 1 minute. Is there any way to change this back to normal?
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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby Dalai » 16.07.2019, 15:59

radeo wrote:[...] I suppose 7 hours is too long.

I suppose it's a "normal" time frame when KB3000850 (November 2014 Rollup) is missing. Well, as normal as it can be with Windows Update anyway :roll:. You can avoid that long waiting time when you use a Win8.1 setup DVD that already contains this update. You can get one e.g. at TechBench (yes, it's original MS DVD).

I recommend that you reinstall the system with an ISO that contains the November 2014 Rollup (like the one mentioned above), assuming that you just installed the system and you didn't put too much work into it so far.

Also, since I closed the console after seven hours, the monitor dims after 1 minute. Is there any way to change this back to normal?

Just switch the power profile back to the previous one (and delete the WSUS Offline temporary profile).

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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby radeo » 16.07.2019, 17:38

Hi Dalai. And thank you for all the info.

Dalai wrote:I recommend that you reinstall the system with an ISO that contains the November 2014 Rollup (like the one mentioned above), assuming that you just installed the system and you didn't put too much work into it so far.



That sounds like a good idea, but I already have a system which includes lots of other software and tools, all backed as an image. So at this view, no fresh install of the system is wished. How about one of these options:

a) How about excluding this KB3000850 update within WSUS and later manually installing the file, would that change something?
b) Would hypothetical not installing this KB3000850 still be OK for the Windows 8.1 (security and functionality)?
c) Do you have some better idea?
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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby Dalai » 16.07.2019, 17:56

radeo wrote:So at this view, no fresh install of the system is wished.

I see. Does this mean you didn't install updates in the past?

a) How about excluding this KB3000850 update within WSUS and later manually installing the file, would that change something?

No, it probably wouldn't. Besides, it can't be excluded because the script itself checks if it's missing, i.e. it's not defined in some static definition file.

b) Would hypothetical not installing this KB3000850 still be OK for the Windows 8.1 (security and functionality)?

There's a reason why WSUS Offline checks for the presence of this update and installs it when missing, as well as why Microsoft included it in the ISOs releases sometime after November 2014: It's required to install further updates.

c) Do you have some better idea?

Please post the contents of C:\Windows\wsusofflineupdate.log (in [code]-tags). I want to see if the other prerequisite updates KB3173424 and KB3172614 have been installed properly. These updates are required to reduce the installation time of updates significantly.

Or, you can repeat the download with WSUS Offline 11.7.4 (published a couple of hours ago) which changes one of these prerequisites (KB3173424 replaced by KB4504418), to see if this changes anything.

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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby radeo » 16.07.2019, 18:32

Dalai wrote:I see. Does this mean you didn't install updates in the past?

Yes, exactly. The usual way of updating via Control Panel worked and now suddenly the system (Windows) loads and searches the updates to the infinity and not finding anything.

Dalai wrote:
b) Would hypothetical not installing this KB3000850 still be OK for the Windows 8.1 (security and functionality)?

There's a reason why WSUS Offline checks for the presence of this update and installs it when missing, as well as why Microsoft included it in the ISOs releases sometime after November 2014: It's required to install further updates.

Oo, yes, right. That makes sense.

Dalai wrote:
a) How about excluding this KB3000850 update within WSUS and later manually installing the file, would that change something?

No, it probably wouldn't. Besides, it can't be excluded because the script itself checks if it's missing, i.e. it's not defined in some static definition file.

Well if excluding this KB3000850 in the WSUS would install (almost) all the other updates and later I could manually install the KB3000850, that could be one option.

Dalai wrote:Please post the contents of C:\Windows\wsusofflineupdate.log (in code-tags). I want to see if the other prerequisite updates KB3173424 and KB3172614 have been installed properly. These updates are required to reduce the installation time of updates significantly.

Here is one (not seeing any KB's you mentioned):
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mon 15.07.2019 17:43:02,07 - Info: Starting WSUS Offline Update v. 11.7.3
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:02,08 - Info: Option /updatercerts detected
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,04 - Info: Found Microsoft Windows version 6.3.9600.17085 (w63 x86 enu sp0)
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,04 - Info: Found Microsoft Windows Software Licensing Management Tool info...
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,07 - Info: Name: Windows(R), Professional edition
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,08 - Info: Description: Windows(R) Operating System, VOLUME_MAK channel
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,08 - Info: Partial Product Key: RM33Q
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,10 - Info: License Status: Licensed
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,10 - Info: Found total physical memory: 3 GB
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,19 - Info: Found Windows Update Agent version 7.9.9600.17195
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,21 - Info: Found Windows Installer version 5.0.9600.16384
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,21 - Info: Found Windows Script Host version 5.8.9600.17031
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,22 - Info: Found Internet Explorer version 9.11.9600.17207
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,22 - Info: Found Microsoft Silverlight version 0.0.0.0
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,24 - Info: Found Remote Desktop Client version 6.3.9600.16384
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,24 - Info: Found Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 version 3.5.30729.4926
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,26 - Info: Found Windows PowerShell version 2.0
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,26 - Info: Found Microsoft .NET Framework 4 version 4.5.51641 (release: 378675)
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,27 - Info: Found Windows Management Framework version 4.0.0.0
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,27 - Info: Found Windows Defender definitions version 1.297.1107.0
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,51 - Info: Catalog date: 9.7.2019
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,54 - Info: Medium build date: 15.07.2019
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,55 - Info: Medium supports Microsoft Windows (w63 x86 glb)
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:05,69 - Info: Disabled screensaver
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:06,01 - Info: Created temporary power scheme
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:06,38 - Info: Adjusted power management settings
mon 15.07.2019 17:43:08,32 - Info: Installing Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 Update Rollup Nov. 2014


Dalai wrote:Or, you can repeat the download with WSUS Offline 11.7.4 (published a couple of hours ago) which changes one of these prerequisites (KB3173424 replaced by KB4504418), to see if this changes anything.


OK, I can do that in any case.

Waiting for your further suggestions :) Thank you so far.
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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby Dalai » 16.07.2019, 20:38

radeo wrote:[...] and now suddenly the system (Windows) loads and searches the updates to the infinity and not finding anything.

Uh, this issue exists since more than 3 years, for Win7 and 8.1 (and XP also had it previously)! See my site. However, it's solved since mid 2016.

Well if excluding this KB3000850 in the WSUS would install (almost) all the other updates and later I could manually install the KB3000850, that could be one option.

Yeah, but that's not how it works. The newer updates are not offered until KB3000850 is installed. Same thing with Windows 8.0 which won't be offered any updates anymore unless it's been updated to 8.1.

Here is one (not seeing any KB's you mentioned):

It looks like WSUS Offline first installs KB3000850 before the other prerequisite updates are installed (and the regular updates come after that).

According to the log, WSUS Offline doesn't disable Windows Update before installing the 2014 Rollups. Please try what I described on my web site (just disable Windows Update and reboot the system, don't install anything), then try WSUS Offline again. I hope that it works then. If not, all you can do is wait for the installation to finish.

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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby aker » 17.07.2019, 00:26

Or if you are a little known to command line, install it using DISM, which bypasses WUA.

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Open an administrative command prompt and enter these commands (the last one will reboot the computer):
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cd /d "<your wsusou dir>\client\w63\glb"

expand ".\Windows8.1-KB3000850-x86.msu" /f:"Windows8.1-KB3000850-x86.cab" "%temp%"
dism /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3000850-x86.cab"
del "%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3000850-x86.cab"

expand ".\Windows8.1-KB3003057-x86.msu" /f:"Windows8.1-KB3003057-x86.cab" "%temp%"
dism /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3003057-x86.cab"
del "%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3003057-x86.cab"

expand ".\Windows8.1-KB3014442-x86.msu" /f:"Windows8.1-KB3014442-x86.cab" "%temp%"
dism /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3014442-x86.cab"
del "%temp%\Windows8.1-KB3014442-x86.cab"

shutdown /r /f /t 00

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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby radeo » 17.07.2019, 18:15

Dalai wrote:
radeo wrote:[...] and now suddenly the system (Windows) loads and searches the updates to the infinity and not finding anything.

Uh, this issue exists since more than 3 years, for Win7 and 8.1 (and XP also had it previously)! See my site. However, it's solved since mid 2016.

I managed the updates with Windows Update Troubleshooter which fixed the infinite searching/unfinding the updates. However, for couple of months already, under the same hardware configuration and the same image file that contains the Windows system, the Troubleshooter didn't fixed the way to get the updates. Fully and genuine licensed operating system can't be updated. That is a little bit "funny".



Dalai wrote:
Here is one (not seeing any KB's you mentioned):

According to the log, WSUS Offline doesn't disable Windows Update before installing the 2014 Rollups. Please try what I described on my web site (just disable Windows Update and reboot the system, don't install anything), then try WSUS Offline again. I hope that it works then.

This worked fine, thank you. Everything lasted about 6 hours with couple of reboots. However, looking at the log file, these KB's were warned as not found:

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wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2687440 (id: 3c72a908-f3cd-413d-b2bf-ecb68d24b6fe) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2596927 (id: ce09a331-7e53-46d2-b826-61ff20c651b6) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3032663 (id: 38af5a92-349a-4f0b-8bed-4fdfa0de1388) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2596650 (id: b1aecad7-403f-4ca7-b79d-6391a317be3a) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2825645 (id: 1c2cdff4-46aa-4c9a-9a55-9b0eaeda3bf8) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2596614 (id: 84335ffc-bc5f-4c41-8dac-e96499d320af) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3085549 (id: e33ff4cb-81c9-4d28-a0cd-707d7d6fc227) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2881067 (id: 87d7d2fb-b4f0-4f7e-8a3a-b9ed4c4cd7a3) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3122651 (id: a27988a2-d88e-4084-8df1-2a9266891aad) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2956110 (id: a3f324bd-2a48-4e17-94d8-b28fe4bd14a1) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2984938 (id: b215df87-a3bb-4e32-8ee4-8c7402ec33e4) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2984943 (id: edcc1acb-520b-4b79-9cee-d4cb8be0a543) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2596915 (id: 309c1fed-6856-4fb9-a84a-46cb4bc888af) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2986253 (id: b569ce76-cc48-442a-b141-5fa568530673) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb2596904 (id: 158250e3-4ef3-47ef-acf3-908145be487a) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3213641 (id: d0955758-bb02-4421-bd68-9c1819c98c29) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3213642 (id: 2b02a46f-4b07-470d-99ae-ae3a66744ee4) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3114428 (id: 43e21454-6259-4940-b8c1-b3fe6bb0a707) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3213646 (id: 8b04bc91-88c8-4229-86f0-b454e69a93f0) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb3213649 (id: dcf6fe76-e86e-4643-9c2f-d8ac9fac5843) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4041085 (id: 373cd154-3986-4328-bdca-d9ab76992c3b) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4011656 (id: 749b494d-2879-4eb5-b00d-45661c0d92fc) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4011656 (id: 048bb7e5-d8c0-47ff-b48d-99edac515216) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4011715 (id: ee266d3e-aef7-4ace-be8e-29b1015b18e2) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4011200 (id: 8e96a91a-9667-44eb-8a0c-a36cac07123e) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4018353 (id: 61b00a1e-eac1-43c8-8ef9-ac6a2b597f07) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4011717 (id: 457833ab-7bbd-4efe-af83-04d8143aaaeb) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4018354 (id: 6f83ae0a-b693-4ae2-a6fd-ab40d06efe99) not found
wed 17.07.2019 18:14:06,33 - Warning: Update kb4018355 (id: 117b0737-185c-48a6-a0f1-c2793a9d1841) not found

These KB's look like are for my Microsoft Office 2007 and .NET. Any ideas how to get them anyway?


aker wrote:Or if you are a little known to command line, install it using DISM, which bypasses WUA.

Will write a guide tomorrow and edit it into this post.

Thank you. I think I could manage with the CMD commands. As it looks like the above updates worked, so for now, thank you for wanting to assist.
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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby Dalai » 17.07.2019, 18:33

Sounds good so far. Is KB3000850 installed now?

radeo wrote:These KB's look like are for my Microsoft Office 2007 and .NET. Any ideas how to get them anyway?

Select the checkbox to include .NET Framework in UpdateGenerator and do a new download run. For Office 2007 you must use an older version of WSUS Offline (in a separate directory) because it's out of support since 2017; the last version to support Office 2007 is 11.0.3. Note that the downloads for unsupported software might not all be available anymore.

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Re: Unfinished installation of the updates

Postby radeo » 17.07.2019, 19:06

Dalai wrote:Sounds good so far. Is KB3000850 installed now?

Yes, KB3000850 was installed as a first one in like 20 minutes or less. All went fine.

Dalai wrote:
radeo wrote:These KB's look like are for my Microsoft Office 2007 and .NET. Any ideas how to get them anyway?

Select the checkbox to include .NET Framework in UpdateGenerator and do a new download run. For Office 2007 you must use an older version of WSUS Offline (in a separate directory) because it's out of support since 2017; the last version to support Office 2007 is 11.0.3. Note that the downloads for unsupported software might not all be available anymore.


OK, thank you very much for everything. And I did found a 11.0.3. version in the archive.

As an interesting thing, now I ran Windows Update in Control Panel and whala, 106 updates are avaliable to download. There are:
- some updates that were already downloaded today via WSUS,
- some updates that weren't downloaded today by WSUS,
- some of those "not found" for Microsoft Office 2007.

Any new suggestions maybe?
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