Now Windows Update tells me it is up to date and there are no updates for my computer. After rebooting, I ran Windows Update yet again, and this time KB2984981 was not offered.
I uninstalled it, ran Windows Update and it was able to successfully install KB2984976 but still failed KB2965788 and KB2984981. I revisited this forum and saw the suggestion KB3004394 might be the culprit. A web download of KB2984976 told me it was not applicable.
I tried to install KB2965788 from the Microsoft website as opposed to using the Windows Update and got the message it was not applicable, A web download of KB2984981 started but did not complete successfully.
I ran updates until I got the same error code again when trying to install KB2965788, KB2984981, and KB2984976.
This morning I installed AVG first thing but did not join the domain or install MS Office. Finally I gave up and restored the machine to its factory image. I tried restoring to earlier restore points, but eventually ended up in the same situation with the same error code. I tried selecting only individual updates as well as running sfc /scannow. I installed MS Office 2010 and continued running updates until I got the error code 800706F7. I downloaded the initial batch of updates, installed AVG, and joined it to my domain. And then I have about 575 actual devices out on the network and those are things that Spiceworks has all been able to tell me. But the time it took to do that discovery was quite lengthy.Just to add my two cents worth, I have been having similar issues with a factory new Dell OptiPlex 3020 since yesterday. Half of those are desktop phones, another 200 or so are probably cellular phones or WiFi devices that connect up. Because, like I said, I have no documentation into this network and what I've been able to find is I've got 1,375 DHCP leases out there. It took me two weeks to get everything that I imagine is in the network onto that. When it does device discovery, that really takes a long time. I would also say that a faster network search engine would be good. It does alerts, but it tells us when stuff is down and when it comes back. It doesn't have some of the integrations I'd like to see, some of the ticket generation alerts, things of that nature. But I don't have any tool that is capable of mapping the way that I need to map this network. And I could show the links, I could show the nodes, I could show the switches, routers, et cetera. So if they could implement a little bit better GIS-based mapping, I could take a Google Earth image and zoom right down here on my 875 square miles. And the mapping that they've got there doesn't even come close to being usable to me. I have an 875 square-mile Indian reservation that I have to keep an eye on. The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual, bonafide network map would be really nice. I've been messing around with their Google Map snap-in that they've got and that's great if I've got a massively corporate Enterprise Scale Network with branch locations in 50 different cities around the U.S., but I don't.
For example, I've already caught several world-class operators here in our work environment putting the software on their machines that should not have and it was documented and they were disciplined because of it. I would say policy enforcement is definitely one of the bigger features overall that this solution gives. The SCCN machine on the South Room Inventory and Compliance might tell me some of the other software that's on. But Spiceworks definitely gives a much broader overview. I do have a Microsoft Configuration Manager Server here and that will work okay.
That's a very accurate and easy way to find software inventory of every machine that's out there. If I just want to quickly look and see who's logged on to their machine Spiceworks will tell me that. It's something you have to craft a script for and it's kind of a pain to have to do it every time. I have found a couple of features to be valuable. One, it shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know upfront.