Server 2019 - Windows Update Broken

[garethEds]

Evening All,

 

I have a 2019 Standard server which runs Veeam. For a while now the Windows Update service has broken on it. I've tried to fix it with everything I find on the web. I've run the trouble-shooters, run the commands that I've found here: Fix Windows Update corruptions and installation failures - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn

 

I've followed blogs etc etc - all of which basically say the same thing.

 

Nothing works. I've tried manually installing, but they fail and keep rolling back (so at least that is working).

 

Short of re-building the server, does anyone have any ideas? Ideally I want to avoid spending time rebuiling. I don't generally backup the backup server.

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[3s-gtech]

In-place update?

[sigma]

Exactly what is broken? Any error messages or codes?

[Squelch]

In-place upgrade to 2022 if you can.

I have a usb drive connected to my veeam server and use windows server backup to back it up daily in case of windows corruption.

[ITGuyNW]

Veeam should be easy enough to backup and restore though right after Windows install? Config should be getting backed up elsewhere, along with the actual backups.

 

Rebuild, install Veeam, restore/reattach backups

 

Try it in a VM first if you want

[PotNoodleTech]

As above try and in place upgrade first as forcing it to Server 2022 is highly likely to cagole the windows updates into working again.

[garethEds]

Thanks everyone. Might do an in place today.

[garethEds]

Okay - well, I tried an in-place update. It didn't work. 'Windows Server installation has failed' is the message I get. So something must be well broken. Luckily it's virtual so I'll  spin up a new one later in the week and copy stuff over.

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[garethEds]

I'll close this off. I took Sunday to spin up a new 2022 server. Got it all sorted. A small issue between different versions of Veeam where I needed to find an older ISO (I'd not updated in a while). 

 

All is good now and backups are running without issue. Thanks to everyone for their comments.

 

Gareth