{"id":26,"date":"2014-12-11T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=26"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:04:00","slug":"patchday-windows-update-error-800706f7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2014\/12\/11\/patchday-windows-update-error-800706f7\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchday: Windows Update error 800706F7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"win7\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"win7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/win7_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"44\" align=\"left\" height=\"42\">Currently, a couple of users are facing issues with Microsoft December 2014 patch day. Windows throw an error 800706F7 and refuse to update. The issue has been observed in Windows 7 clients and on Windows Server 2008 R2 as well (and probably on Exchange). A few hints, what to do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The main cause for update error 800706F7 is <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/3004394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Update KB3004394<\/a> (just withdrawn from Microsoft's Windows Update \u2013 and also from direct download links). I've blogged about this yesterday in my article <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2014\/12\/10\/update-kb3004394-breaks-root-certificate-in-windows-7-windows-server-2008-r2\/\">Update KB3004394 breaks Root Certificate in Windows 7\/ Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So the fix is really simple: Removal of Update KB3004394 should resolve the problem, that is occuring on Windows 7 client, and even on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Exchange Server (see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220928103803\/https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/windowsserver\/en-US\/facb705a-469e-4c7a-ad8c-9546a000e03c\/getting-800706f7-windows-update-error?forum=winservergen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Technet thread<\/a> \u2013 or <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150318064802\/http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com:80\/topic\/610390-windows-updates-won-t-install-800706f7-error?page=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this spiceworks.com thread<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, a couple of users are facing issues with Microsoft December 2014 patch day. Windows throw an error 800706F7 and refuse to update. The issue has been observed in Windows 7 clients and on Windows Server 2008 R2 as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2014\/12\/11\/patchday-windows-update-error-800706f7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,5,194],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-error-800706f7","tag-update-kb3004394","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35078,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/35078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}