
Last monthly installation has been made without any problems on all Servers.Īll updates show the same behavior on the affected servers that the update cannot be completed successfully. Renaming of SoftwareDistribution, rescanning of updates and installing cause loop. Previous monthly updates uninstalling cause loop. Server (VMware VM) launches a stage 2 of 4 again, then it goes shutdown of services and reboot.Īll Servers restored from backup. Windows Server 2012 stuck in reboot loop "Configuring Updates: Stage 2 of 4Īfter installing November monthly updates from WSUS server, about 80% of 2012 Servers stuck in loop. In Microsoft's Technet Forum there is now this thread in which a person affected describes his observation.

In the article, the blog reader had suspected that the "Desktop Experience" feature might be involved in this problem. the updates are installed repeatedly or retain the status "Pending restart" even after a restart. The problem: After installing the updates, some Windows Server 2012 goes into a restart loop, where the update process shows the status "Pending restart".

I had already addressed the topic after a reader's tip in the blog post Pending Pending Update Issue with Windows Server 2012 Standard at the beginning of November 2019.
