Windows Updates taking a crap after an in-place upgrade has to be my biggest gripe about in-place upgrades. But the boss says to do an in-place upgrade so I don’t have much choice.

Looks like these two things might help with Windows Updates just spinning forever after an upgrade.

Stop the Windows Update service and run the commands below:

cd C:\Windows\System32\wbem\AutoRecover
for /f %s in ('dir /b *.mof *.mfl') do mofcomp %s

Start the Windows Update service, install Windows8.1-KB3102812-x64.msu, then reboot.

I am hopeful that this will fix it because KB2102812 didn’t want to install at first, and after the commands above, it installed immediately. I’m still waiting on confirmation that this will fix the issues because some users can’t wait 2 minutes over lunchtime for me to sneak a reboot in.

I’m not sure how upgrading 2012R2 to 2016 will go, we’ll see in a year or two.

UPDATE 2019-10-21: It looks like KB2102812 helped. Updates were found and installed after a reboot.