Monday, 25 March 2013

Hyper-V Windows Update error 80072ee2

Hyper-V Windows Update would stop working with error 80072ee2

After building a Windows 2008 R1 VM Windows Update stopped working.

Windows Update Installed the latest update for Windows Update then any further attempts to check for updates resulted in a 80072ee2 error.

It was still possible to browse the web.

A temp fix was to use the Legacy NIC on the virtual machine and windows updates started working again.

Just built a Windows 2008 R2 VM with the same problem but tracked it down to a setting on the VM NIC. The specific property Large Send Offload Version 2 (IPv4) must be set to Disabled and Windows updates starts working.

How It’s done:

Open Local Area Connection properties

Select Configure

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Select the Advanced tab

You are looking for a property Send Offload IPv4

Disable this property and Windows Updates should start working again

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Disabled this on the Windows 2008 R1 server with similar results.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for this post. Spent a couple of hours trouble"shooting" before stumbling upon this.

    Monte

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