I have a fresh install of Server 2025 with WSEE and cannot get the “Get Updates for other Microsoft Products” Task to complete. All other tasks have been completed in the Setup tab for the server.

I checked in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Data\Dashboard\TaskStatus.xml and everything there shows as complete, however I noticed there are only 8 task status entries there (all flagged as completed), while there are 9 on the dashboard including the one for updates.

I believe it may have something to do with missing registry keys as it seems that Microsoft made some changes for there (at least as of Server 2025 if not prior to then.

Before reinstalling the OS on my server I was previously running 2022 with WSEE that was in-place upgraded from 2016 Essentials to 2022. I tried to do an in-place upgrade to 2025 but had numerous issues that were likely due to the age of my install and all the additional Roles I was running on it. With that being said, not sure if this is an issue on fresh 2022 installs as well. I’m guessing I never ran into this before because my server would have had the old registry entries.

I figured I would post here to get some ideas/suggestions (or possibly even have a fix added into the WSEE installer) The task not showing as completed isn’t a major deal as it’s mainly a UI thing, but it definitely triggers my OCD not having all of the checkmarks ticked. It also means the Dashboard opens up to the setup page every time rather than Quick status.