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Powershell Remote: Microsoft.Update.Session, Access Denied: 0x80070005

I've written a script to search/download/install Windows Updates on a machine using the Microsoft.Update.Session COM Object. When run locally it works just fine, however when running through a remote session or through Invoke-Command I receive an access denied (0x80070005) error on Microsoft.Update.Session.CreateUpdateDownloader()

I receive the same error if I attempt to create a Downloader object directly, code to reproduce the issue:

$oUpdateDownloader = new-object -com "Microsoft.Update.Downloader"

I am an administrator on the remote machine, and passing credentials (for myself explicitly or any other admin account) to the machine does not seem to change anything.

I've seen this error posted a number of times but there does not seem to be any information on solving the problem...

Any ideas?

Solution

  • This is a known issue. It appears that there is a bug with the actual COM object itself, as this issue occurs when using VBScript, PowerShell, and even C#. There is a good article that discusses managing Windows Update with PowerShell that can be found here.

    The workaround is to set up a scheduled task on the computer and you can invoke that task however you see fit.