Windows Update on Vista and Windows 7

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I have setup Zeroshell as a gateway for a student wireless network I have set 1 interface ETH02 as the external card this has NAT enabled. There are 2 other cards one ETH01 is connected to the College Network to allow authentication to AD. The last card ETH00 is on the student wireless network (at the moment I am Just using 1 wired workstation with a crossover cable on this port). I have tested Captive portal and Proxy/dansguardian. and everything is fine. I can access http and https sites. The only problem is the windows update application in windows 7 will not search for updates. It produces Error Code 8024419. I have turned off the proxy and the captive portal so that a browser session can access any websites without logging into the portal and without filtering. But the windows update application still cannot search for updates.

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See if this helps you a bit
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/3421-windows-update-error-code-80244019-a.html

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Thanks for the reply. the error code is indeed 80244019 not 8024419 as I originally stated. However the wsus policy has not been applied to this machine so the key refered to in the article does not exist.

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Having Just created a new virtual machine for my windows 7 client I now find that the updates work. I then turned the captive port and proxy on again and find that the operation is as expected I can get windows updates after I have opened a browser session and logged in. So it looks like just another Microsoft Bug as the first machine works on another internet connection.

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