Re: Windows Update behind firewall

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:51:08 -0500

FWIW, I do windowsupdate regularly through ISA firewall, and nothing's
changed, nor have I created any rules specific to it.

"Jed" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07b501c3ba24$14f2c7b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> When i run windows update
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com on my PC's i get an
> error (0x800A138F)
> My windows update log file has the following
>
>
> 2003-12-03 09:05:37 17:05:37 Success IUENGINE
> Shutting down
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUCTL
> Downloaded iuident.cab from
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v4/ to C:\Program
> Files\WindowsUpdate\V4
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUCTL
> Current iuengine.dll version: 5.4.3790.14
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUCTL
> Current iuctl.dll version: 5.4.3790.14
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUENGINE
> Starting
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUENGINE
> Determining machine configuration
> 2003-12-03 09:05:40 17:05:40 Success IUENGINE
> Determining machine configuration
> 2003-12-03 09:05:43 17:05:43 Error IUENGINE
> Querying software update catalog (Error 0x800C0002)
> 2003-12-03 09:05:44 17:05:44 Success IUENGINE
> Shutting down
> 2003-12-03 09:05:45 17:05:45 Success IUCTL
> Shutting down
>
>
> I had tried everything in the following artical
> http://www.updatexp.com/0x800A138F.html
>
> So Then I tried windows update using a dial up connection
> from the pc and it works fine.
> My normal internet connection is a Linux MNF Firewall off
> an ADSL router connection so I reconfigured the PC to use
> my Microsoft ISA Firewall that uses the same ADSL router
> connection. But the same problem with windows update.
> Then I tried going directly through the ADSL router
> connection (skipping the firewall) and it worked.
> So the question is does Windows update have a problem with
> the expiry date on the pages which is making it come from
> my cache there for stopping it working.
> Or has there been a change to the windows update site
> wherefor I need a specific rule other than http (port 80)
> and https (port 443) out to get access to that site.
> I'm stumped as to why this is happening.
> Any help would be great thanks.

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