Get Updates for other Microsoft Products Task Incomplete
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.
- homeserverdude asked 2 weeks ago
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Under Windows Server 2022 there’s an issue (bug) that causes the user to be automatically opted-out of the “Get updates for other Microsoft products” task whenever a new virus definition set is installed by Windows Update. I’m not sure if the bug still exists in the most recent releases of 2022, and I was under the impression that the bug didn’t exist at all under 2025 (but maybe it does).
So… The WSEE Installer has code in it that checks to see if the task isn’t already opted-in (when running under 2022), and if not, it then goes ahead and forces the opt-in for you (via a call to the native method that does that within the underlying Essentials source code) and then it clears the “Microsoft Update is not enabled” health alert if it happens to exist.
I’ll go ahead and enable that fix for 2025 as well under the next release of the WSEE Installer/Updater (which should be out on July 14 with the next release of Windows Updates). Hopefully that resolves the issue for you (although, that being said, I’m not seeing the issue happen over here on any of our 2025 Essentials servers as all of them have the task enabled just fine via the HOME -> Get Started -> SETUP panel of the server Dashboard).
Lastly, the “Get updates for other Microsoft products” task within TaskStatus.xml has a key value of 8412D35A-13EE-4112-AE0B-F7DBC83EA83D (and mine shows all 9 task status entries). However, you probably shouldn’t manually enable it within that file if it hasn’t truly been enabled (i.e., maybe wait for the fix I release before resorting to doing that).
- Mike answered 2 weeks ago
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