Stuck on Installing Updates

[karldenton]

Hi

 

New 2012 virtual server on hyper v (well 2 actually)

 

Both are stuck on "Preparing to install" after doing updates from Microsoft rather than WSUS.

 

Retried and also run Windows update fix from microsoft and done a reboot but still does the same.

 

Thanks

[edutech4schools]

I always get that if I install all the updates in one go on a fresh server install. I think it's KB 2919355 which causes the issue if it's installed before some other update, so I leave this until last, along with the larger updates.

[ITJS2015]

Hi

 

Do you use a proxy ?

 

Open up a command with admin permissions and type the following

 

netsh winhttp show proxy

 

With windows 8 8.1 windows 10 and server 2012 have system proxy behind the scenes which I didn't know until a month back and had trouble installing updates.

They had 0% installing even they had been detected

 

If you don't have the proxy in do the following command

 

netsh winhttp set proxy (Proxy address:portnumber)

 

If that does not work with it make sure aswell that within the internet settings under trusted site make sure that from this link the addresses are put in there

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708605(v=ws.10).aspx

 

Hopefully this should work

[ITJS2015]

Use https://update.microsoft.com https://windowsupdate.microsoft.com https://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com https://*update.microsoft.com

[Sagima]

If it's got secure boot enabled I find that I sometimes get that with the initial batch of updates. Unticking it for the install always sorts it