[Error number: 0x8024800C] running Windows update

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Trent Here,

I recently ran into a problem on some machines that were failing to run windows update. The web service would fail with the following [Error number: 0x8024800C]

 I found several posts related to connection errors between a proxy server and firewall settings however none of these applied to my scenario. Looking at the windowsupdate.log file didn't help much either:

I was able to find the following: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720442(WS.10).aspx on the Windows Update Agent Result codes

Data Store
0x8024800C WU_E_DS_LOCKTIMEOUTEXPIRED The data store section could not be locked within the allotted time.

So the "Data Store" is actually C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore. Interesting.  https://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058.

The article was not identicle to what I was seeing but gave me some good ideas

***************Resolution***************

From a command line - net stop "Automatic Updates" 

del C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\

net start "Automatic Updates" 

After that I simply ran windowsupate again and it worked perfectly.

Trent
CISSP, ITILv3, MCP

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