Re: Cannot /wuforce WUA to 7.2.6001.784 from version 7.2.6001.788 on Windows Server 2008

[X-post to Vista General and Windows Server General]

Why would you want to downgrade WUA?

wrote:
> I am facing problem with downgrading WUA with /wuforce option on
> Windows 2008 Server Ent SP1 x86-32 or Windows Vista Ent SP1 x86-32,
> this works fine with Windows 2003 Server Std SP2 x86-64 endpoint.
>
> Win-2008/Vista endpoint is having 7.2.6001.788 and I have to downgrade
> it to 7.0.6000.381, but it shows error message - "Install is not
> needed since Windows Update Agent is already installed", when I tried
> with downgrading it to 7.1.6001.65(later than 7.0.6000.381) it worked
> fine.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has faced this problem, or know workarround.
>
> Thanks
> Pushkaraj

We are getting 0x800704dd error on newer builds(7.2.6001.788 &
7.2.6001.784 ) of wua -
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...60bc9ba972de18
in our case we use normal user to login & execute command on endpoint,
it is failing even we are using Administrator user.

On Apr 28, 12:37*am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [X-post to Vista General and Windows Server General]
>
> Why would you want to downgrade WUA?
>

To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous
message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.

[Original title: "Error messages that you may receive when you try to
download and install updates from the Windows Update Web site, from the
Microsoft Update Web site, or from a WSUS server: "0x800704DD,"
"0x80240020," or both"]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910341


wrote:
> We are getting 0x800704dd error on newer builds(7.2.6001.788 &
> 7.2.6001.784 ) of wua -
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...60bc9ba972de18
> in our case we use normal user to login & execute command on endpoint,
> it is failing even we are using Administrator user.
>
> On Apr 28, 12:37 am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> [X-post to Vista General and Windows Server General]
>>
>> Why would you want to downgrade WUA?
<paste>
wrote:
> I am facing problem with downgrading WUA with /wuforce option on
> Windows 2008 Server Ent SP1 x86-32 or Windows Vista Ent SP1 x86-32,
> this works fine with Windows 2003 Server Std SP2 x86-64 endpoint.
>
> Win-2008/Vista endpoint is having 7.2.6001.788 and I have to downgrade
> it to 7.0.6000.381, but it shows error message - "Install is not
> needed since Windows Update Agent is already installed", when I tried
> with downgrading it to 7.1.6001.65(later than 7.0.6000.381) it worked
> fine.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has faced this problem, or know workarround.