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WSUS 8024401b Error: Failure Content Download in branch offices

Asked by it-maintenance in Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Operating System

Tags: Microsoft, WSUS, 3.0 SP1, 8024401b AutomaticUpdates Failure Content Download Error: Download failed.

Good day dear experts,
All of our clients in branch offices show the "8024401b AutomaticUpdates Failure Content Download Error: Download failed" error in the ReportingEvents.log. The WindowsUpdate.log shows "Error 0x8024401b occurred while downloading update; notifying dependent calls" and "FATAL: DM:CAgentDownloadManager::DownloadUpdate: pDownloadJob->Init failed with 0x8024401b.".

Our main WSUS server is located at the headquarters and is configured to download and store updates locally. The branch office WSUS servers are set up as Replicas and do not store any updates. They simply get the approvals from the main server and clients are then configured to install Updates from Microsoft Update. Replication between the branch office servers and the main server works and does not log any errors.

Servers are all Windows Server 2003 with SP2, clients are Windows XP SP2.

The funny thing is that I am able to go to the Microsoft Update website on any branch office client and download the updates manually from there. It just doesn't work via the wuauclt, even though it's configured to get the updates from just that site.

This problem has started to appear a couple of weeks ago for seemingly no reason. I've since tried various things to work around the problem, but none worked.
- updated all WSUS servers to SP1
- completely reinstalled one of them
- stopped Automatic Updates service on a client and deleted/renamed the SoftwareDistribution folder

I've looked around the web and many people appear to have this problem, but no one can offer a consistent solution.

Has anyone seen or solved this problem?

Regards,

Beni / IT-Maintenance
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Zones: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Operating System
Tags: Microsoft, WSUS, 3.0 SP1, 8024401b AutomaticUpdates Failure Content Download Error: Download failed.
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