[W8.1 Update 1] "Windows Store failed to sync machine licenses. Result code 0x80070490"

At least I'm un-aware of such fix, the problem clearly still relies deep in 8.1 (and it's updates) somewhere.

Interesting is, that in my case, I am able to temporarily fix it by running Windows update troubleshooter (stops and restarts BITS and Cryptographic services), BUT after rebooting Windows the problem (Windows Store failed to sync machine licenses. Result code 0x80070490) always re-appears.

I have been contacted privately (by Forum MSFT techies) on this case, but haven't heard anything back from them yet.

Waiting this to be solved.

Does anyone know how to fix this yet? I tried all the steps. Even went as far as a system reinstall just to test it out and the instance came back the second I updated to 8.1.

It doesn't seem to affect anything but I am beyond curious as to what is causing this issue.

Hi @NamanR,

I have (also according to Windows Control Panel > Installed Updates) successfully installed KB2919355 on 13th Apr 2014. The abovementioned (by Naman R) method was used at the time in that case. So to me, the KB2919355 is in place (and various KB installations after that, too) <- I do get all the Windows System updates (including security updates) BUT not Windows Store application updates.

So the problem is the "Windows Store failed to sync machine licenses. Result code 0x80070490"

TEMPORARILY running Windows update troubleshooter fixes the problem (stops and restarts BITS and Cryptographic services), BUT after rebooting Windows the problem (Windows Store failed to sync machine licenses. Result code 0x80070490) always re-appears.

Here is the report of successfull Windows update troubleshooter.

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth ->

[==========================100.0%==========================]

The component store is repairable.

The operation completed successfully.

Then run:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth ->

[==========================100.0%==========================]

The restore operation failed. Either the repair source was not found or the comp

onent store cannot be repaired.

Error: 0x800f081f

DISM failed. No operation was performed.

For more information, review the log file.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

Here is my DISM log file.

Hi Souminen,

Sorry for the delay in response.

First, you need to clean up the component store of Windows 8.1 and remove the failed KB2919355 package.

1. Open an elevated command prompt.
2. Enter the following command:

dism/online/removepackage/packagename:Package_for_KB2919355~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.1.14

This will remove the KB2919355 package from the component store.

1. Now run DISM with the following options:

dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

This command will clean up other components in the store which have issues.

Now, try to install the KB2919355 package again using Windows Update. Now it should be installed.

If it cannot be installed again, you should try to refer to KB2939087. Follow the instructions at the Microsoft Support web site to install it and reboot your PC.

That's it. Feel free to tell us in the comments which solution exactly you used to fix the Windows 8.1 Update installation issue.

I have that error,   store and updates work fine. 

I had it with the automatic update.

I have since done a repair install with the 8.1.u1 msdn dvd, the error still is there. 

Seems no harm really.   Would be nice to have error free events though.

By the way.  Thumbs up to Microsoft for the inplace dvd repair install.   Just maybe 2 programs needed minor massaging after running it.  Slick !