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Access to drivers on Windows Update was blocked by policy

November 29, 2016 Leave a comment

Problem
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager
Date: 18/10/2016 3:44:20 PM
Event ID: 122
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: server.domain.local
Description: Access to drivers on Windows Update was blocked by policy
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event”&gt;
<System>
<Provider Name=”Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager” Guid=”{FCBB06BB-6A2A-46E3-ABAA-246CB4E508B2}” />
<EventID>122</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime=”2016-10-18T05:14:20.860369100Z” />
<EventRecordID>1413</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID=”896″ ThreadID=”3480″ />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-DeviceSetupManager/Admin</Channel>
<Computer>server.domain.local</Computer>
<Security UserID=”S-1-5-18″ />
</System>
<EventData>
</EventData>
</Event>

Resolution
If you open “Devices and Printers” in Control Panel, you might see a small pop-down about displaying enhanced device icons. right click that bar and select “Open device installation settings”.
If you change the setting to “Always install the best driver software from Windows Update.” then the EventID 122 errors will go away.
If you *also* select the “Automatically get the device app and info provided by your manufacturer” then the whole setting will change itself to the first “Yes, do this automatically” option (so the first option is the same as selecting both the bottom ones)
Whether you want to do this or not is on you!