I have an SBS2008 server (Virtual machine on ESXi 5) that I'm trying to patch to prep it for a SBS2011 migration. The migration tool won't load because windows updates haven't been run for quite some time. Every time I've run updates I get the message "Updates were not configured correctly. Reverting Changes. Do not turn off your computer". The failure code on the first update is Code80073AA2 which a Google search led me to a couple "fixes".
One of them involved adding information into the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT. Adding the info in there didn't work, but when I renamed WINEVT to WINEVT_old I was able to install updates successfully...but it broke Exchange and I had to revert to my snapshot.
I see plenty of "fixes" for Vista, Win7/8 I'd like to try except I'm running a host of other software (Exchange and RWW mainly) those OS' don't so I'm a little reticent to apply those. I inherited this server from another tech so I'm not sure when this started...and I no longer have open lines of communication with them.
Who else has experienced this and what fixed it?
