I was trying to run a maintenance update for my office printer and file server. I can’t see anyone touching the server since I join the company. The server run on Windows 2000 and I believe the server is older than the OS itself, because it still have the ISA slot :whooa: .

I ran the windows update via web and it happen to display the 0xC8000711 error. I got stump and thinking to re-install the server. Not that fast, I have to search the fix to keep challenging myself :P .

After few minutes of research, it seem that to run an update, a windows need these two services started;
-Background Intelligent Transfer Service
-Event Log

Sound stupid, but that what really happend. The server Event Log service was stopped. I start the service and run update like a charm.. :clap: :clap:

This should help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798/
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&mid=e0bbda84-a7dc-4170-afbe-4c18e66f970c&sloc=en-us
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=427326


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    3 Responses to “Windows 2000 Update Error:0xC8000711”

    1. pablott91 Says:

      I´m using Windows 2000, i disabled the event log service and i couldn´t update the system.
      Fortunately i found this page: thanks a lot for the information !!

    2. ad3 Says:

      Haha.. welcome pablott91.. sharing is caring.. :p

    3. Arnaud Says:

      Thank you from France man!
      I had the same problem cause I tried to start windows 2000 pro a little bit faster, and I decided to deactivate the event log service… until I try to run Windows Update: nothing was working at all…
      Now, with your advice, I reactivated this service, and Windows Update is working klike a charm!
      Thanks a lot ad3!!!

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