All of July's dotNET security patches are failing on Windows 7 with ESU

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robertrice5

Every one of the July patches for dotNET are failing to install on our Windows 7 machines that all have licensed ESU's. The error is a generic

Final Result: Installation failed with error code: (0x80070643), "Fatal error during installation.


I have manually checked a dozen or so of these machines, each log for the corresponding patch states the same thing. This particular entry came from patch KB4565616.


07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: LANGID: 1033

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Entry: ValidateESULicense Started v1.1.200515.1300 - Verifying a valid and active ESU License exists.

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: OS Detected 'Windows 7 SP1'

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: ProductInfo 48

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Entry: Entering IsFESProduct

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: Current SKU: 48

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: Current SKU has a valid FES Product Key

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Exit: Exiting IsFESProduct. HR=0

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Entry: Entering IsSecurityUpdateAllowed

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Warning: No ESU License found. Performing IsAzureVM check.

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Entry: Entering IsAzureVM.

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Entry: Entering IsAzureAssetTag.

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: SMBIOSAssetTag:

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Exit: Exiting IsAzureAssetTag.

07/24/20 07:02:38 DDSet_Status: Accessing Azure IDMS to verify if VM is hosted in Azure.

07/24/20 07:02:43 DDSet_Error: Failed to send HTTP request. HR=-2147012894

07/24/20 07:02:43 DDSet_Exit: Exiting IsAzureVM. HR=-2147012894

07/24/20 07:02:43 DDSet_Error: Failed to determine if running on an Azure hosted VM.

07/24/20 07:02:43 DDSet_Exit: Exiting IsSecurityUpdateAllowed. HR=-2147012894

07/24/20 07:02:43 DDSet_Exit: ValidateESULicense Ended. HR=-2147012894

CustomAction CA2_ESUValidate_amd64 returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)





When you run the slmgr /dlv command, you can see that the ESU license has been applied.


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Odd thing is, all of the other Windows 7 patches for July are installing fine. We had no issues with June either. Anyone else coming across this?





EDIT:

All of the machines are listed as being OEM_SLP activated, if this makes a difference.

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