Re: Windows Update Error 0x8007F004 (Insufficient Privilege)

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:56:32 -0000

I'm getting the same problem with some of our servers. They used to work
fine until a few months ago when the problem first occurred.

I don't think it's a permissions problem, since so far I've tried installing
it as the local administrator, the domain administrator, my own domain
administrator user, and the backup user (also a domain user, and is the
username which is logged in as on the backup server, which is one of the
ones which works correctly), all to no avail. I've also tried running
NTFileMon while running the installation (running it manually after
downloading one of the patches), and it doesn't come up with any permissions
errors, so it certainly doesn't seem to be a file system permissions error.

Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try to resolve this? Someone
mentioned that this might be a bug with windows / the patches, does anyone
know if this is true or if there is a likely fix coming out any time soon?

Keith

"Zeveck" <Zeveck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17C36D6A-2AC5-4100-882D-10E291E444A4@microsoft.com...
> When I tried to install Microsoft's latest patches (MS04-029 through
> MS04-038) via Windows Update the process failed. I looked in
C:\WINNT\Windows
> Update.log and found the relevent entry, which listed error 0x8007F004 and
> referred me to "...iuhist.xml for details...". However, iuhist.xml didn't
> tell me much more -- just that it had actually failed while trying to
install
> the cummulative ie patch from MS04-038.
>
> So, I tried downloading the patches manually and applying them, but got
the
> error "You do not have permission to update Windows 2000. Please contact
your
> system administrator." However, I am currently logged into Windows 2000 as
a
> user who is in the Administrators group.
>
> Does anybody have any idea why I would get this kind of error? or what I
can
> do to try and install these patches? I already tried reinstalling IESP1
> (which worked fine), deleting the Windows Update/WUTemp folders and
visiting
> Windows Update again. Nothing seems to be helping and I am at a loss.

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