Installing roles and features error 0x80073701

[Carlos Sota]

I have a Windows Server 2016 Standard with Active Directory Domain Services and DNS installed. The server is working for a few months now. Yesterday I was going to install the DHCP role and it gives the error "The referenced assembly could not be found. Error: 0x80073701".

I cannot also install updates with Windows Update, I can however install updates manually.

I searched for this error and some people worked this around by installing missing language packs, but I have never installed or removed any language pack.

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