{"id":809,"date":"2012-07-14T17:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=809"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:12:12","slug":"windows-update-error-800b0001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update Error 800B0001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WSUS-error.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-811\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" title=\"WSUS error 800B0001\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WSUS-error-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WSUS-error-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WSUS-error.png 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few days ago some of our Windows 7 clients were having a Windows Update error, the specific message was<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows could not search for new updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An error occurred while checking for\u00a0new\u00a0updates for your computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Error(s) found:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Code 800B0001 Windows Update \u00a0encountered an unknown error.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing was the clients could still get updates from Microsoft Update however anything from our Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Server would result in this error message.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out Microsoft had updated the Windows Update client on Windows 7 and that an update (the number is <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2720211\">KB2720211<\/a>) was required on the WSUS server to allow the clients to continue to update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple solution<\/strong> is to approve this update in WSUS and apply it to your servers, a bit of a pain is that this update requires a reboot of the server but hey its that or no updates for your clients!<\/p>\n<p>For a nice walk through see the screenshots below<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Update &#8211; For Windows Server 2012<\/p>\n<p>A further update has been released to allow WSUS 3.0 SP2 to provide updates for Windows Server 2012 &#8211; details can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=43633\">KB2938066<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago some of our Windows 7 clients were having a Windows Update error, the specific message was Windows could not search for new updates An error occurred while checking for\u00a0new\u00a0updates for your computer. Error(s) found: Code 800B0001 Windows Update \u00a0encountered an unknown error. The funny thing was the clients could still get updates from Microsoft Update however&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=809\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[114,113,112],"series":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-800b0001","tag-windows-update","tag-wsus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8533,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}