In response to the answers provided by: 1) PaulNSWPosted on 2013-06-14 at 04:51:31 have you tried restarting the server first? Gangadhar Tipre Serial more. Yes this was the first thing tried before question was posted. Any msiexec.exe's running in Task Manager? I have checked this and didn't find any msiexec running. 2)by: ve3ofaPosted on 2013-06-14 at 14:36:16ID: 39248675 automatic updates are not set to download to the server not install via SCCM.

Qawwali Dholak Software there. I get the following error msg displayed when trying to install windows s/w updates: 'This installation failed to start because another update installation is already. I continue to receive a prompt on my laptop that is informing me that 'Software Updates. Windows Update. 'The Installation failed to start because another.

3)by: SSharmaPosted on 2013-06-17 at 13:42:10ID: 39253949 We had similar issue and we found that the Sophos automatic update got corrupted and its trying to repair itself, but was unable to. So it could be some software which is trying to update itself, without prompting. This server has McAfee Enterprise client running on access scan tried disabling and attempted to run the installation, same issue. I looked at a few articles from general technet blogs and started to investigate to see if the SCCM folks are attempting to push any application updates to Adobe.