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SCCM Failed to initiate installation of updates, error = 0x80040271

When you install windows using SCCM OSD , sometimes an agent will comeback up and you wont be able to initiate software distribution or Updates .

We face an issue where a newly deployed system kept showing this error  , although the update did seem to have installed.
"An error was encountered while attempting to install software updates"

Updatedeploymnet.log showed this:

InstallUpdates Initiated by user UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC)
Action not allowed in pause state UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC)
InstallUpdates failed, error 80040271 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC)
Failed to initiate installation of updates, error = 0x80040271 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 3280 (0x0CD0)





In our case we have to stop SMS agent Host Service and then change the value of  following keys to 0 in registry

Registry Location:

 HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Software Distribution\State\Pause\


Value --  Paused  (set this to 0)
Value -- PausedCookie (set this to 0)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Reboot Management

Value--- JobCounter   (set this to 0)


After this start the SMS Agent Host service

Hope this helps



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