Articles »
Fixing the MS Office SP2 "Outlook cannot connect to your incoming POP3 account" error
Fri, 16/10/09 – 21:37 | No Comment

So, when I got up this morning, I noticed my computer had rebooted–my main development machine is a MacBook Pro, and I was booted into Mac OSX rather than Windows Vista where I had left it last night. I then realized I couldn’t send or receive mail–the last mail I received was from last night–so I immediately suspected a problem with a Windows Update.

Read the full story »
Articles

Patch management and related articles.

Bulletins

Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins.

Downloads

Security-related downloads from Microsoft download center.

Exploits

Various exploits seen in the wild.

KB Articles

Microsoft knowledge base articles.

Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: readiness-tool

Re: Error Code 8000FFFF
Monday, 5 Oct, 2009 – 14:25 | No Comment

Is this Vista SP1/SP2 or Windows 7 ? There’s a possibly that there is an issue with an incomplete installation of the Windows Update Agent and/or there’s missing/mismatched/corrupted data in the registry that is pointing to WinSxS.

Re: problems with windows update
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 19:54 | No Comment

SP2 Prerequisite Updates include: • Description of the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 installation software feature update (28 Apr-09) [link] • Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista… (22 Sept-09 [link]

Re: 0×80070002
Wednesday, 23 Sep, 2009 – 12:27 | No Comment

Steve, You could try downloading, **saving**, and running the Windows Update Readiness Tool (CheckSUR) as it was updated and released yesterday. *PLEASE NOTE* that it’s a 97 MB download *MAKE SURE* you click the download link for Vista x64 Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for

Re: 0×80070002
Wednesday, 23 Sep, 2009 – 12:27 | No Comment

Steve, You could try downloading, **saving**, and running the Windows Update Readiness Tool (CheckSUR) as it was updated and released yesterday. *PLEASE NOTE* that it’s a 97 MB download *MAKE SURE* you click the download link for Vista x64 Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for

RE: KB951847 error code 8007000D
Tuesday, 25 Aug, 2009 – 13:44 | No Comment

0×8007000D ERROR_INVALID_DATA Description The data is invalid.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 installation fails due to missing SP1
Saturday, 8 Aug, 2009 – 15:04 | No Comment
Windows Server 2008 SP2 installation fails due to missing SP1

** This is a manual translation into English of my original post to assist more Admins in that matter as we see lots of posts regading similar installation issues ** Today I tried to install Service Pack 2 on a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 (with IE7) box but it stopped with the error message: You need to install Windows Server Service Pack 1 before continuing. Ok, we all know that there’s no such thing like a Service Pack 1 for a Windows Server 2008 which could be installed. Tried to install SP2 both from Microsoft Update and from the downlaodable file to no avail

Re: 80073712 error but no pending.xml file found
Tuesday, 26 Aug, 2008 – 10:20 | No Comment

Run this tool: Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista and for Windows Server 2008 [link] ” What Windows Update installation errors can the …

Re: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 in Windows
Friday, 27 Jun, 2008 – 10:22 | No Comment

Start a free Windows Update support incident request: [link] Support for Windows Update: [link] For home users, no-charge support is available by calling …