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Certain Windows updates fail with error 0x800F0922 during configuration
posted on September 10th 2015, at 13:10
by lunarg
Installation of certain Windows updates may fail to complete. Although the installation itself succeeds, the configuration part does not complete, and the changes are reverted, causing all updates to fail. When looking at the update history (Windows Update → View update history), the updates have failed with error code 0x800F0922:



The following updates are known to be affected by this, but there are probably others as well.

Windows 8/Server 2012: KB2756872, KB2770917, KB2955163

Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2: KB2919355

The affected updates fail to install because the System Reserved partition (not the C:-drive) is full or nearly full.

In my case, a log file in the System Volume Infor  ...
 
On March 29th 2017 at 15:28, Michael Bowen wrote:
 
Saw the exact same issue in our environment, except instead of one big log AppAssure had created a bunch of 1MB ones. I tried to first do the whole assign a drive letter, unhide system files, take ownership and change permissions thing but the snag I hit was the permission changes couldn't be applied because the drive was full. Oy vey!

Instead of using WinPE, I booted to a Linux distro, mounted the partition and could then view and delete the log files. Actually since we no longer use AppAssure, I deleted all AA*.* files. Wound up having to do this on a bunch of servers.
 
 
 
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