The guide in post #1 has been updated to reflect changes to steps #16 and #18 and the Internet Explorer 9 batch file. These are the January 2025 updates at the Microsoft Update Catalog which are available for Windows Server 2008 SP2 64-bit: KB5050682 Servicing Stack Update KB5049994 Internet Explorer 9 KB5050063 Security Monthly Quality Rollup KB5049627 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2
Just a heads up, I have been unable to get Windows Update to work on 32-Bit Vista on 3 different VMs after installing the latest SMQR. All the usual tricks have been applied. WU_Datastore Fix, .NET BYPASS, using legacyupdate server etc, etc. But I am being met with the same error over and over again. Haven't tested 64-Bit yet, but this only happens after this month's SMQR has been installed. Was working fine with the Dec SMQR installed. Datastore.edb grows to around 450MB but then WU stops after about 20 seconds and throws up the 8007000E error again. Not sure if it's a mixture of the latest Servicing Stack and SMQR causing the issue, but everything was going okay until this month. Rolled back to the Dec SMQR and all working okay again. I'll do some more tests including on 64-Bit, but if anyone else is having this issue, can they post about it here? Maybe it's something that will be fixed in next month's SMQR, but who knows?
Burdus77: I test only with Windows Vista SP2 64-bit, and it's installed in normal mode and not in VM mode. I'm very busy with other computer-related work, so I don't intend to do another complete test of the guide anytime soon to determine what issues there are. I'm also considering stopping my work on the guide and letting someone else here take over it.
This is a legacy update issue that happens only on VMs I am not sure why (maybe bandwidth management?). Never had a problem on a laptop (with latest successful attempt being today) and always had a problem with VMs. Once every blue moon it works on the VMs too though.
Thanks, that makes sense. Rolling back to the Dec rollup has solved the issue for me, so not sure what's breaking it on VMs with the Jan update. I'm leaving it with the Dec SMQR installed for now which doesn't seem to be causing any issues. I'm probably going to wait until next month just to see if something in the next rollup sorts it out. If it's down to legacyupdate then I'll leave it as a VM issue. My VMs are mostly 64-Bit now anyway.
You just got lucky most likely. I have this problem since legacy update became a thing back in April this is why i was late to adopt it. It was failing for my vms. Once I started updating the laptops directly it never failed, not even once. Once a while the vms will work as well but I have no clue why. At any rate don't waste time on this. Unless it is a fun thing for you as it was for me. In that case I can't save you xDD
It's definitely an issue that seems to be affecting the 32-Bit version. Haven't had any issues on the 64-Bit versions. Time to give up on Windows Update for the 32-Bit version of Vista, for me anyway. Will stick to the 64-Bit Vista VMs from now on (or for as long as it still works!) Definitely not fun!!