Thanks for the help guys, but I think I'll just ignore it for now, it's not
that important and I've got a lot of more important things to be working on
to be spending days on this.

Peter Lawton

"Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" <onsite@postalias.news> wrote in message
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> "Peter Lawton" <dummy@dummy.domain> wrote in message
> news:uZU26d#tIHA.1328@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> This is not a WSUS problem, these are the important bits from my previous
>> posts that explain what my problem actually is:-
>>
>> 1) Running Windows Vista Business and can't run Windows update from the
>> Microsoft site, I get the error 80244016
>
> Peter.. the bottom line is that you're getting an error, an HTTP 400
> error.
>
> Something on that PC is mucked up, or something in the pathway from that
> PC to microsoft.com is mucked up.
>
> One thing that must be isolated is that there's not a flaw in the WSUS
> configuration, thus my suggestion to run the CDT and post the results.
>
> Otherwise, I think PA Bear's advice is the best one: Open a support
> incident.
>
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> Senior Data Architect, APQC, Houston, Texas
> Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2008)
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