The AchieVer Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Windows Update and Microsoft Store aren’t working for some users Seems to be a DNS-related issue A number of Windows 10 users have apparently been having trouble connecting to the Microsoft Store, and more crucially, Windows Update. Reports have broke out online describing such gremlins in the works of Windows 10, as Windows Latest spotted, and they’re allegedly being caused by a DNS issue. At first, the denizens of Reddit were reporting that the problem was with Comcast DNS, and that switching to an alternative DNS server (like Google’s) remedied the issue. That workaround was only successful for some, though, and further reports (one of which was on Microsoft’s Answers.comforum) have popped up of non-Comcast users being unable to get Windows Update or the store to function, including users in the UK on BT, TalkTalk and possibly other ISPs. So there appears to be a problem on Microsoft’s end somewhere, seemingly persisting – even though the very latest comments on the Answers.com thread suggest Windows Update now appears to be working again, it’s not actually downloading anything, or functioning correctly. Investigation underway A Microsoft support engineer chimed in on Reddit to say: “Microsoft is aware of this issue and is investigating. We’ll provide more information as it becomes available.” Apparently this bugbear is only affecting a fairly limited set of Windows 10 users, but nonetheless, it’ll hopefully be solved sooner rather than later, given that having Windows Update failing to function is a pretty major faux pas (and not being able to download apps or games from the Microsoft Store could doubtless be a major annoyance, too). Meantime, you could always try the workaround of switching your DNS server to see if that has a positive effect. We’ve highlighted all the best free and public DNS servers, and we describe how to switch servers if you scroll further down the article, past the recommendations. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 14 minutes ago, The AchieVer said: A number of Windows 10 users have apparently been having trouble connecting to the Microsoft Store, and more crucially, Windows Update. As they say in the classics... they're not bugs, they're features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 6 hours ago, Karlston said: As they say in the classics... they're not bugs, they're features. You can see here Microsoft has been having outages for the last few days in some parts of the USA and UK https://outage.report/microsoft They had over 2000 on that day they made that topic at Reddit . All changing DNS is doing is changing to somewhere there not having a outage .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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