I am trying to install software updates to a captured reference PC so that the pc is fully updated when the WIM is complete. However, when the reference pc is captured, and i deploy it, it is missing 4 updates, 3 of which are .net 4 security updates and 1 IE9 securit update. I believe what is happening is that install software updates is applying the .net Framework 4.0 and IE 9 browser, and is not identifying a need to apply a second round of updates. for those products that installed the first time. So i tried adding two "install software updates" action in my task sequence. And that did not come up succesful. I tried putting a restart in the middle, and that did not work either. The one thing that paritally worked was the following: Install Software Updates Restart Computer Initiate a Scan Cyce (via script) Install Software Updates This picks up the IE9 update and 2 .net security updates, but it fails on the 3rd with an error in the task sequence of type "Unspecified Error" . Digging through the logs, i find this errror in UpdatesDeployment.log file Install not allow as another job is still in progress. InstallUpdates failed, error 80040703 I could always just treat IE9 and .NET 4 as software packages, and install them that way, but i thought keeping all updates together in a software updates file would be the cleanest method of managing the TS. Any thoughts??

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Peter, That was the route I eventually took. I did have the updates cycling through a second time, but i believe there was a conflict with the .net framework configuration after the restart and the second bout of updates. My guess is if i put a sleep in for the configuration to take place, the above steps woudl have worked. However, i bailed and went to installing those applciations as software packages rather than software updates. Thanks Todd