Windows Update Failure Error Code 9C48 Unable to Fix.

I find it quite interesting that all of a sudden today, IE will no longer install using that switch.

I also find it interesting that today's install on a different 1750 had 163 updates waiting for it instead of the 161 that were there yesterday....using the same install media I might add.

I had the IE9 exe a few different places and they all produce the same result today, I get a warning it will NOT install without being given access to the web to get an update in order to install, when for about 20 or 30 attempts prior to today it would always fail when being given access to the web.

The only thing different with today's install, this one has raid, a perc 4 (many of my 1950 and 2950 had raid cards also, perc 5's and perc 6's) and i installed dns in advance of finishing the updates.

I have no clue what happened but it appears I am right back in to the same damn loop again, IE reports that it is already version 9 and yet windows update is providing me an 18 MB download of the IE9 install and it fails returning with error 9C48.

I already jumped through all the hoops in previous days running all the fixit's and all the other BS that does not work so I have no plans on wasting my time with that list of failures.

Of course I can not install the offline version, since setup claims I have a newer version installed than the downloaded version, and if that were HONESTLY true, then why is windows update trying to give me the same damn version?

This has now happened with more than 5 fresh installs.

Microsoft, what did you screw up with windows update when it concerns Server 2008 (NON R2)

100% Verified.

I recreated the entire situation on a Dell Poweredge 1750 with a brand spanking new install of Windows Server Standard 2008 x86. (all version of 2008 have produced similar results on different hardware)

Immediately upon finishing the install of windows and Open Manage, I ran windows updates.

There were 161 updates and I took them all, I think the only update not selected was .Net 4.51

The IE9 update failed as i expected.

Nothing would allow the update to run, EXCEPT downloading and running IE off line install and ONLY when using the /update-no switch. (IE9-WindowsVista-x86-enu)

Immediately upon installing IE 9, I went back to windows update and got 8 or 9 more updates, one of them being KB3065822 which was never offered to me before the successful completion of IE9.

If you refer to some of the forum threads about this issue, both here at microsoft as well as the Dell forums, you can see that in some instances folks were getting IE to sort of install and IE About would even report that it was version 9, which in a few of my test scenarios that happened to me, but in NO CASE was I ever offer the KB3065822 until after I ran the IE 9 install with the no update switch.

That will NEVER work on a Dell Server if you want to run Open Manage since although I have heard some have managed to make FireFox work with it, you need IE to mange servers with Open Manage...

I actually managed to get the update to run and install fine by using the offline install with a switch /update-no

Immediately after the install and reboot going back to Windows Update provided me additional security patches so I knew all was fine.

I found the answer in this thread (and posted as did others that it worked for them also.)

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/2c252dbe-c833-424d-9b75-4948bb8fb816/windows-2008-r2-ent-fresh-install-update-error-9c48

This pretty much proves that the active update during the live install process has a problem...likely only in certain situations. Maybe it is a certain update that if installed before IE9 is installed it causes this, but I am happy to at least have gotten it figured out as I am doing a lot of testing on 2008 in different situations so I am not more comfortable I can get past this pesky error on a fresh install.

I have just today installed a fresh copy of 2008 x86 on a test server and am currently running all updates. If IE fails as I suspect it will, I will immediately try the offline install with the /update-no to verify this was the surefire fix but after trying so many things in recent days, and keeping notes rebooting between each step etc, it does look like a fix to whatever issue was the root cause for many.

I doubt hardware has anything to do with it but I recreated the issue on Poweredge 2950's and a 2900, and am now giving it a go on a 1750

Rick

Universal4

I paid them their one year fee for technical service and it took them three days to resolve the issue......basically they had to wipe my computer...........I still have programs on my desktop from their service and in my files that they left dangling on my computer instead of removing them after their tragic attempt at fixing a problem they have no fix for.  

I have switched to Google and vow never to ever use IE ever again.