I just installed windows 2003 advanced server and when I try to access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com it returns the error below:

The URL is added as a trusted zone.

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?




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To to install the MS high Encryption Patch.

The error you gave can be caused by a number of things, java etc. but a reinstall of the patch helped me.

If you can try loging into a sftp site. I couldnt before i reinstalled the Patch.

Is your date/time correct?

Time and Date, and make sure there is a language specified in IE. Sometimes this does not happen by default and will cause windows update not to work.

theres an option about ssl I believe in advanced options of IE. There are a lot of different things that make this happen. First try adding ms as a trusted site. and it will be good to check your advanced options. I can let you know exactly what we had to do later on today if you dont get it fixed.

Kosta

Originally posted by banksy
To to install the MS high Encryption Patch.

The error you gave can be caused by a number of things, java etc. but a reinstall of the patch helped me.

If you can try loging into a sftp site. I couldnt before i reinstalled the Patch.

Where can I download the MS Encryption from? The only one I see at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/128bit/default.asp is for Explorer 5.01. Windows Server 2003 comes with Explorer 6.0.3790 as default.

Originally posted by MattF
Is your date/time correct?

yes my date, time & time zone are all correct

Originally posted by elementip
Time and Date, and make sure there is a language specified in IE. Sometimes this does not happen by default and will cause windows update not to work.

Yes the language is set to English within the Internet Explorer settings.

Originally posted by kostagr33k
theres an option about ssl I believe in advanced options of IE. There are a lot of different things that make this happen. First try adding ms as a trusted site. and it will be good to check your advanced options. I can let you know exactly what we had to do later on today if you dont get it fixed.

Kosta

I have added the sites to my Trusted zone and have also tried many different combinitions under advanced settings in Expplorer. Any further help woudl be greatly appreciated.

See if this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319585

I finally got the windows update error working. For some strange reason I also had to add the following to trusted zones:

http://microsoft.com
https://microsoft.com
http://download.microsoft.com
https://download.microsoft.com

Even after adding those, windows update would still not work if I went to START then Windows Update, but did work if I just typed http://windowsupdate.micrsoft.com in the browser