Okay you can take this with a grain of salt but here was what I did, and it
fixed my problem.
First of all I was running Windows 2000 Server SP4 and getting the
0x80072EFE error on the Windows Update site. All I could find related to it
was something about the ISA server which I did not have.
So here we go...
First I cleared the user's temp folder, then Temporary Internet File folder,
The WUTemp folder. I put security setting of Internet Explorer back to
Default levels, went to the Windows update site. Clicked on Change settings
and disabled Microsoft Update Software. The next page said blah blah...if
you want to re-install this software click here. Clich on it and let it take
you back through the Windows Update process.
It worked for me on 2 out 2 machines. Thanks.
"msaltz" wrote:
> I click the Windows update link in my programs folder and then i choose
> Express Install. Windows Update searches for available updates for about 20
> sec. Then i get an error screen.
> [Error number: 0x80072EFD] or [Error number: 0x80072EFE]
> I tried to access the Windows update from other PC's on the network, but i
> get the same result. I took the laptop and connected to windows update at
> home through the cable internet and had no problems, so i think the problem
> has to with a setting in ISA Server 2000, which is the firewall for the
> company network.
>
> To attempt to solve this i have tried the following:
> 1. I made sure the ISA Server 2000 feature pack and service pack 2 was
> installed on the server.
> 2. Added the following trusted site to Internet Explorer on the local
> computer: http://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com,
> https://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com, http://download.windowsupdate.com
> 3. In ISA Management, on the server, i created a destion set called Windows
> Update Destination Set, with the following destinations:
> http://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com, http://download.windowsupdate.com,
> https://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com. For the path on each of these i put
> /*. Next i created an Access rule to allow calls to the Windows Update
> Destination Set.
>
> None of these solve the problem, any ideas or suggestions on to get windows
> update to work through ISA Server 2000?
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