No Updates Were Installed: doing it the long way

Machine summary: Win2K Pro, Automatic Updates set to run daily at 3am,
3GHz, 256MB, 15GB free space. User account is Power User, and the
Administrator account has a non-standard name. (This is typical of
desktops at this site, and we're not yet using SUS/WUS.) I often
launch Windows Update with Run As from my user account, which I'm
starting to think mightn't be a good idea.

After the other day's headlines, I checked (as usual) that the updates
had installed properly, only to find a list of Failed entries in the
Installation History. Uh-oh. A manual run of Windows Update gave me
"No Updates Were Installed" and a list of the failed updates. Uh-oh
again.

Googled heavily on this, and the likeliest tip seemed to be the KB
article "How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults"
(http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;313222).
Nope, still knackered afterwards. Even heavier Googling coughed up a
note on manually extracting the WUTemp archives (at SUSserver forums,
http://forums.susserver.com/index.php?showtopic=2022), and after some
work I got KB834707 installed at least.

I repeated all this today for KB839645, and haven't had any reports
yet of failures on other machines here. My notebook entries might be
useful for anyone in the same situation:

: 1. Windows Update reports:
:
: No Updates Were Installed
:
: The following items failed to install. To try installing them
: again, click Review and install updates, and then click Install
: Now again.
:
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB840315)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB842526)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB841873)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB841356)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB840987)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB841872)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB841533)
: Security Update for DirectX 9.0 (KB839643)
: Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB839645)
:
: 2. C:\WINNT\Windows Update.log reports:
:
: Error IUENGINE
: See iuhist.xml for details: Install finished (Error 0x80070008:
: Not enough storage is available to process this command.)
:
: 3. C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\V4\iuhist.xml sez:
:
: <title>Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB839645)</title>
: <installStatus value="FAILED" needsReboot="0"
: errorCode="-2147024888" />
:
: -2147024888 = 0xff80070008.
:
: 4. In C:\WUTemp\com_microsoft.839645_W2K_SP5_WinSE_96133 _Express is
: found Windows2000-KB839645-x86-ENU-express.exe. Running this
: directly reports:
:
: Extraction Failed
:
: Unable to find a volume for file extraction.
: Please verify that you have proper permissions.
:
: 5. Extracting gives spuninst.exe and update/update.exe. Running
: spuninst.exe gives:
:
: Windows 2000 Removal Wizard
:
: This program removes Windows 2000 and restores your previous
: configuration.
:
: To remove Windows 2000, click Next.
:
: Running update.exe gives:
:
: Welcome to the Windows 2000 KB839645 Setup Wizard
:
: Success.

Summary: all of the WUTemp\{...}\{...}-express.exe downloads refuse to
install (running as admin), but by manually extracting I've gotten two
of them to install by executing the tarred update.exe without further
ado, and suspect the rest'll run happily too.

The highly misleading error messages in steps 2 and 4 seem to indicate
that ownership is somehow confused: the archive executables are trying
to expand themselves, but can't (and report bogus reasons why).

Owner of Windows2000-KB839645-x86-ENU-express.exe is the
Administrators group ("Administrators (<host>\Administrators)").
Security has Full Control for Administrators and SYSTEM.

Permissions of WUTemp are different: owner is same, and security has
Full Control for Administrators and SYSTEM, but CREATOR/OWNER has all
Allow entries unchecked even though the detailed Permission Entry
shows all Allow entries checked. Uh. A possible reason there?

Any suggestions as to (a) how to batch the rest of these updates (I've
got OTHER work to do, dammit), and (b) how to avoid this situation in
future? (Logs available on request.)

Would be appreciated.

As would the public flogging of the moron who wrote this FPOS.

(Aside: aren't these the updates released for XP users a month ago?
Gee. Ta.)


thanks,
butting

Some time back, I wrote:
> Machine summary: Win2K Pro, Automatic Updates set to run daily at 3am,
> 3GHz, 256MB, 15GB free space. User account is Power User, and the
> Administrator account has a non-standard name. (This is typical of
> desktops at this site, and we're not yet using SUS/WUS.) I often
> launch Windows Update with Run As from my user account, which I'm
> starting to think mightn't be a good idea.
>
> After the other day's headlines, I checked (as usual) that the updates
> had installed properly, only to find a list of Failed entries in the
> Installation History. Uh-oh. A manual run of Windows Update gave me
> "No Updates Were Installed" and a list of the failed updates. Uh-oh
> again.
>
> Googled heavily on this, and the likeliest tip seemed to be the KB
> article "How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults"
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;313222).
> Nope, still knackered afterwards. Even heavier Googling coughed up a
> note on manually extracting the WUTemp archives (at SUSserver forums,
> http://forums.susserver.com/index.php?showtopic=2022), and after some
> work I got KB834707 installed at least.

Hmmm.

Turns out that setting permissions for C:\ to Everyone/Full Access
took care of this. An earlier attempt to force Windows Update to
rebuild C:\WUTemp had no effect.

Icky, but at least I don't have to unpack and install the damn things
by hand.


butting