Server 2016 Std | unable to install CUs after 2022-02 CU | error 0x800F0922

Question

Hello,

new customer of mine has 10 domain controllers (2 physical and 8 virtual). These domain controllers were on a very old state "2019-05 Cumulative Update" or "2019-12 Cumulative Update". I wanted to update these domain controllers to the current state "2023-05 Cumulative Update".

But on each server I always got the error 0x800F0922 no matter if I tried to install the update from WSUS or manually downloaded from MS Update Catalog. Then I tried to install previous Cumulative Update 2023-04, 2022-08, 2022-06, 2022-04 and I always got the error 0x800F0922. After that I went forward instead of backward and was able to install 2019-12, 2021-08 and 2022-02 successfully.

Starting with 2022-02, I get the 0x800F0922 error message again for all future Cumulative Updates (i.e. 2022-03, 2022-04, ...).

I have tried some things I found as solutions on the web.

• ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution & ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2
• empty %temp% and C:\Windows\Temp
• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth & SFC /ScanNow
• manual install Edge Browser
• installation via sconfig
• disabled Antivires & Firewall

It looks to me like with the 2022-03 version (KB5011495) there must be a prerequisite that I don't have. I can't find any sign of an error in EventViewer. Do you have any suggestions what I can check or test? Now that I have all domain controllers all up to 2022-02, I can test many things at the same time.

Answer 1

Looks like some sort of Encrypted File System debug info. May not have anything to do with it.

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Answer 2

I have found the issue.
This registry key was to much
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Microsoft-Windows-EFS/Debug
After deliting it, the update could be installed.

Thanks anyway.