Re: Error Message: 0x8024D007 as of 04/05/2009 - present

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gregzhrh wrote:

No anti-virus software installed on any of these PC's until Microsoft updates are complete so to eliminate that possibility. Intial installations are being done from CD with full format to the hard drive during the CD setup process.
When trying to manually install latest version of WU Agent, with or without "/wuforce" switch, returns same error (0x8024D007)

Are these XP RTM CD's ? If not, what is their SP level ?

Have you attempted to install the WUA from a Command Prompt with the /wuforce switch after stopping the WU and BITS services ?
BITS is set to Manual by Default but it may have been started in this situation -

net stop wuauserv
net stop bits

Was there ever a prompt to reboot after AU attempted to install the WUA?

If there is infact a permission issue, which I have also thought might be occuring somewhere in the background, where would it be happening, and why would a fresh batch of PC's work for a few hours last night with updates, and then a clean installation the next day fail.

The fastest way to determine where a possible Perm issue is occurring is to run Process Monitor. But, unless there's a firewall issue happening here since there's no security software involved, there *should* not be any Perm issues.
0x8024D007 WU_E_SETUP_REGISTRATION_FAILED is usually associated with incomplete downloads and/or Perm issues, or missing files [0x80070002], or interference by sec software [0x80070005].
Since I have no system to compare logs with due to the manual install of the WUA vs. automatic installs done via AU, the URL shown in the WU.log for the source of the .cab files is puzzling for an XP system:

http://download.windowsupdate.com/v8/windowsupdate/b/selfupdate/WSUS3/x86/Other

Also, the error seems to occur on PC's even without a CD installation. We have tried just taking a Dell out of the box, pre-loaded with XP Pro, and begin to run updates, same failure. We have also tried using our RIS server, with an image of XP Pro SP3, drivers added for the specific machine, same error when attempting to run updates. How could I trace/track down the permission problem details?


Suggest you take a freshly installed system that is *not* connected to the net, transfer the WUA to it, then manually run install from a Command Prompt using /wuforce after stopping the AU service, and then reboot, just to see what happens.


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