Access Denied installing windows 2003 sp2 from windows update??

Hello jc,

What happend if you download/install it from the local machine?

See here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...85aede&m=1&p=1

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> RE: Access Denied installing windows 2003 sp2 from windows update??
>
> I get this error.
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Windows Update Agent
> Event Category: Installation
> Event ID: 20
> Date: 5/20/2008
> Time: 3:31:40 PM
> User: N/A
> Computer: xxxxxDescription:
> Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update
> with error 0x80070005: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (32-bit
> x86).
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> Data:
> 0000: 57 69 6e 33 32 48 52 65 Win32HRe
> 0008: 73 75 6c 74 3d 30 78 38 sult=0x8
> 0010: 30 30 37 30 30 30 35 20 0070005
> 0018: 55 70 64 61 74 65 49 44 UpdateID
> 0020: 3d 7b 35 43 32 33 31 30 ={5C2310
> 0028: 35 45 2d 32 30 30 37 2d 5E-2007-
> 0030: 34 34 39 44 2d 42 39 43 449D-B9C
> 0038: 30 2d 35 46 36 30 37 33 0-5F6073
> 0040: 35 44 46 36 33 42 7d 20 5DF63B}
> 0048: 52 65 76 69 73 69 6f 6e Revision
> 0050: 4e 75 6d 62 65 72 3d 31 Number=1
> 0058: 30 36 20 00 06 .
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: NtServicePack
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 4373
> Date: 5/20/2008
> Time: 3:18:47 PM
> User: xxxxxxxxx
> Computer: xxxxx
> Description:
> Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 installation failed.
> Access is denied.
> I've tried this:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...server.general
> /browse_thread/thread/6226a30a2cb5d2a2/534fad4ea068b851?lnk=st&q=Windo
> ws+Server+2003+Service+Pack+2+installation+failed.+Access+denied#534fa
> d4ea068b851
>
> secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
> / verbose
>
> and read this in another post..
>
> I granted everyone full control of the registry and cleaned the
> registry with Regpair and SP2 installed.
>
> But how exactly do you do this?
>
> I'm logged in as the built in administrator and checked regedit and I
> appear to have write access to all the the registry entries.
>
> Interestingly, prior to attempting windows update for sp2 I was trying
> to install sharepoint 2.0 and was getting an error while trying to
> update a registry entry.
>
> I see a lot of posts on the topic.. but nothing is working.
>
> BTW, I'm installing all of this under a windows Virtual Pc instance.
> Not sure if it matters.
>
> Thanks for any help or information.
>