Many people running Windows XP and Server 2003 are experiencing a bug where Windows and/or Microsoft Update fail with error code 0x80248015 before checking for new updates. I wrote about this last time and now have additional information and a better work-around.

The last time I suggested a fix that involved renaming a folder, but there are a couple problems with that approach: the history of installed patches is lost and it needs to be done every time before you manually run Windows Update.

A better work-around, and one that I have tested on multiple XP machines, is to simply change the date on the computer to November 16, 2014.

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