Cannot update Vista

[Guest]

Ok, this is seriously driving me crazy. Installed Vista Business on my
laptop at home, did all the updates online and everything worked great. I
then brought my laptop to the office, set up a new account for myself that
connects to our company domain and now I can no longer get updates. All I
get is Error Code 80244019 when I try to do automatic updates. If I log out
of this account and then switch back to my local account on this laptop (that
doesn't connect to our domain), I still get the same error code now.

I have searched the groups and the web high and low and nothing is helping.
WinXP did not exhibit this problem on the same laptop connecting to the same
network using the same policies. Anyone with any ideas on this yet? I think
my company is running SBS and we do not have an update server that I'm aware
of. Thanks for any help that can be provided.

James

 

[LaRoux]

Are you using a proxy server that requires authentication? I think there are
some problems associated with this.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the feedback LaRoux! As far as I know I'm not behind proxy.
Again to clarify, this setup was working fine with WinXP. Vista is the
problem now. My understanding is that Vista apparently defaults to looking
for an update server in our domain if you are logging into a domain. Is that
correct? And if so, why is it still looking for an update server when I'm
logged into my local account (no domain) on this laptop? Has something been
changed in the registry now and can it be put back the way it was before I
set up my second account with our domain login?

I have seen NUMEROUS posts about this same 80244019 update error code and
VISTA on the web and nobody seems to have an answer or solution. Surely
there must be some way to get my updates!

Sign me.....

Already frustrated with Vista and thinkin' I shoulda stuck with XP as per my
sys admin's advice. Sigh.....

 

[Guest]

You are right in thinking it's cause by the domain. When you logged in at
work the domain will have told your machine to look at its own "WSUS" servers
for updates. As you are now at home you can not see the server and thus
update. I am also having the same problem and have found the registry key to
change but can now not find the URL for MS server.

Have tried http://www.windowsupdate.com/v4/ with no joy.
The registry key in question is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

 

[beirutter]

You are right in thinking it's cause by the domain. When you logged in at
work the domain will have told your machine to look at its own "WSUS" servers
for updates. As you are now at home you can not see the server and thus
update. I am also having the same problem and have found the registry key to
change but can now not find the URL for MS server.

Have triedhttp://www.windowsupdate.com/v4/with no joy.
The registry key in question is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate






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Hi All,

I have been looking for weeks trying to solve this problem.
The Reg key worked.
I was in a GPO which had been assigned WSUS settings from the root and
had no rights to move myself.
I found the reg key as mentioned by Toby Mills and it works.

Thanks
Joe