{"id":3163,"date":"2017-02-22T04:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2018-03-18T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T06:15:32","slug":"ie-11-update-fails-due-to-prerequisite-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/ie-11-update-fails-due-to-prerequisite-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"IE 11 update fails due to prerequisite updates (KB2729094)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IE 11 update requires the following prerequisite updates &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/2847882\/prerequisite-updates-for-internet-explorer-11\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even after installing those (most of which are already there) IE 11 install will complain and fail. The log files are in <code>C:\\Windows\\IE_.main.log<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>In my case I was getting the following error (seems to be the same for others too):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">00:47.689: ERROR:   WMI query for Hotfixes timed out. Query string: 'Select HotFixID from Win32_QuickFixEngineering WHERE HotFixID=\"KB2670838\" OR HotFixID=\"KB2729094\"'  Error: 0x00040004 (262148).<\/pre>\n<p>Thing is I already had this hotfix installed, so there was nothing more to do. Found this useful <a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/ie\/en-US\/0dfeeb85-9bec-4764-812a-3e23db1dc825\/internet-explorer-11-installation-wmi-timeout-kb2729094?forum=ieitprocurrentver\">support post<\/a> where someone suggested running the hotfix install and side-by-side launching the IE install. Might need to do it 2-3 times but that seems to make a difference. So I tried that and sure enough it helped.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">01:20.216: ERROR:   WMI query for Hotfixes timed out. Query string: 'Select HotFixID from Win32_QuickFixEngineering WHERE HotFixID=\"KB2729094\"'  Error: 0x00040004 (262148).\r\n01:20.965: INFO:    Download for KB2729094 initiated. Downloading http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=258385 -&gt; KB2729094_amd64.MSU.\r\n01:21.511: INFO:    Waiting for 1 prerequisite downloads.\r\n01:36.034: INFO:    Prerequisite download processes have completed. Starting Installation of 1 prerequisites.<\/pre>\n<p>That post is worth a read for some other tricks, especially if you are sequencing this via SCCM. I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/connect\/articles\/deploy-internet-explorer-11-prerequisite-patches-swd-or-task\">article from Symantec<\/a> too which seems helpful. Some day when I am in charge of SCCM too I can try such stuff out! :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> (from Herbert Hall, who emailed me this):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rename the KB2729094 to KB2729094_amd64.msu<\/p>\n<p>Start the install for IE11. When the folder for the install is created in C:\\temp hurry and copy the file in there. This made it work for me. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IE 11 update requires the following prerequisite updates &#8211; link. Even after installing those (most of which are already there) IE 11 install will complain and fail. The log files are in C:\\Windows\\IE_.main.log. In my case I was getting the following error (seems to be the same for others too): 00:47.689: ERROR: WMI query for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/ie-11-update-fails-due-to-prerequisite-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE 11 update fails due to prerequisite updates (KB2729094)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[271,572],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}