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Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Updates breaks installation of .net 3.5, languages, optional features...
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Daniel
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Hi,
Since configuring the new Windows Update Policy setting "Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Updates" I am experiencing issues installing certain windows features.
.net 3.5 framework fails with 0x800f0950
languages fail with 0x800f0954
It can temporarily be solved by changing the data of SetPolicyDrivenUpdateSourceForQualityUpdates from 1 to 0, basically telling the client to download and install quality updates from microsoft update instead of WSUS, which is obviously not what I want.
So it looks like pointing SetPolicyDrivenUpdateSourceForQualityUpdates to WSUS, causes the setting Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair to no longer work.
Can this be fixed somehow?
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Daniel 26 Reputation points
2022-02-10T09:35:32.527+00:00 Is it possible to forward this issue to a Microsoft employee directly? I think it is a pretty severe bug that should be fixed in a timely manner and it is also pretty easy to reproduce.
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Chris Hill 221 Reputation points2022-03-02T17:32:55.683+00:00 Anyone know if this is still an issue?
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Daniel 26 Reputation points
2022-05-05T07:25:16.003+00:00 This issue is still not solved.
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Chris Hill 221 Reputation points
2023-09-12T15:53:15.1566667+00:00 I am tentatively saying that this seems to be working OK in more recent versions of Windows 11 22H2, but possibly not Windows 10 22H2. Are you able to retest?
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JiaF 0 Reputation points2025-03-05T03:03:20.72+00:00 I've solved this issue on my Win11 23H2 OS with setting the value of SetPolicyDrivenUpdateSourceForQualityUpdates to zero. Thanks for your question.
(And I also set SetPolicyDrivenUpdateSourceForFeatureUpdates=0)
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Chris Hill 221 Reputation points
2024-07-25T11:35:15.7033333+00:00 Combining this article
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/fod-and-lang-packs
with this one
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/wufb-wsus
What I am reading is:
- If your clients are running Windows 11 22H2 and above, you can disable 'Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair' provided your WSUS is set up for UUP
- If your clients are running Windows 11 21H2 / Windows 10 (what about Windows Server?) you can leave 'Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair' set to download FoD from WSUS - but also either:
- Configure 'Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Updates' to get feature and quality updates from Windows Update (hence bypassing WSUS) or
- Do not configure 'Specify source service for specific classes of Windows Update' at all
- If you do not configure this policy, all your updates should come from WSUS - unless you have 'deferral policies' set
- What policies are 'deferral policies' is not defined, but it's safe to assume it includes the following - so if you want WSUS to work with FoD on Windows 11 21H2 or Windows 10, I think you must not also enable these.
- Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are received (DeferFeatureUpdates, DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodInDays, BranchReadinessLevel, PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime)
- Select when Quality Updates are received (DeferQualityUpdates, DeferQualityUpdatesPeriodInDays, PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime)