Wednesday, February 21, 2018

How to Force Install Windows Update Package

Have you ever get this annoying error when you tried to install offline update package from Microsoft?
Well, there are a couple of things you can check before you force install the package, which is as tabled below:

Otherwise, you can use below steps to force install the package
  1. Put the package anywhere in you PC eg: U drive
  2. Run the command
    1. expand -F:* "pathToPackage.msu" "
      1. Example: expand -F:* "U:\2018-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup forWindows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4074594).msu" "U:\New folder"
  • Then
    1. DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"pathToExtractedCabFile.cab"
      1. Example: DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"U:\New folder\Windows8.1-KB4074594-x64.cab"

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers.


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