Has anyone been able to update applications or install them from the Windows Store?  We have been trying this both on dedicated machines and on the base images for our machines and we cannot get them to install or update, we are not signing into an account.  This used to work but stopped working after one of the cumulative updates for both Windows 10 and 11.  We have confirmed as well as possible that nothing is being blocked in the network but when updating it doesn't even see that there are updates available and when installing it just gives the error something happened on our end.  The Microsoft Store always wants to update and fails with the error 0x80248014 

We are seeing something similar from quite a while, though the error code etc. are slightly different. 

I've ran into a similar problem with Windows Update and the store not updating. However the issue I ran into is linked to SCCM task sequences not clearing some reg keys after completing. I've also seen a similar issue show up on non SCCM systems but I don't have enough data yet to know the root cause yet.

The issue was that the reg key for DoNotConnectToWindowsUpdateInternetLocations was left behind and possibly a few other in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

It also seems that Windows is caching the entries for those settings in a second spot now. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache

I've found that stopping Windows update service and nuking out everything in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache and then gpupdate then restart the windows update service clears up the issue.

 

 

 

Edited August 8, 2024Aug 8 by Daniel Keer

I checked and I do not have those registry keys on my base image