New Post: Deploy custom update with Flash update modifications

Hi,

So I've deployed the Adobe Flash updates via the catalog and thats all working great! "Thanks!" But now I want to adjust a few options like turning off the update settings in flash by disabling the "Adobe Flash Player Update Service" etc and modifying the "mms.cfg" file in "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash"

What I also want to do is track these customisations and if I later want to change them I can release an updated "Flash Customisation" update so I'm also trying to add a new RegKey and Value so I can use some RegKey exists rules in my installed / installable rules in the the update creation wizard.

My custom update simple stops a service, disables a service, adds a regkey, adds a regvalue for the version number of my customisation, copys the mms.cfg file to mms.bak and create a new one with some settings.

The update appears as I would expect on my test machine but fails to install with error: Code 80072EE2

The logs in WindowsUpdate.log show this:
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent * Added update {6CE2B24C-3140-4327-B8C2-8FD7FB01D1C0}.3 to search result
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent * Added update {CE726850-141F-4D1C-9D66-F0081572556A}.1 to search result
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent * Found 2 updates and 81 categories in search; evaluated appl. rules of 498 out of 1062 deployed entities
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent *********
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Agent *************
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Search for updates [CallId = {0CC16DD2-477E-461E-A8D6-275E06DD8D8E}]
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU # 2 updates detected
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU #########
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU ## END ## AU: Search for updates [CallId = {0CC16DD2-477E-461E-A8D6-275E06DD8D8E}]
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU #############
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU Featured notifications is disabled.
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 774 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2015-08-27 14:01:01:150 952 a94 Report REPORT EVENT: {390F8282-AB56-4BC9-9931-6EAB5DA20C25} 2015-08-27 14:00:56:869+1200 1 161 101 {CE726850-141F-4D1C-9D66-F0081572556A} 1 80072ee2 AutomaticUpdatesWuApp Failure Content Download Error: Download failed.
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 774 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 a94 Report CWERReporter::HandleEvents - WER report upload completed with status 0x8
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 a94 Report WER Report sent: 7.6.7600.256 0x80072ee2 CE726850-141F-4D1C-9D66-F0081572556A Download 101 Managed
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 a94 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 9c8 AU Getting featured update notifications. fIncludeDismissed = true
2015-08-27 14:01:01:166 952 9c8 AU No featured updates available.
2015-08-27 14:01:06:166 952 a94 Report CWERReporter finishing event handling. (00000000)
2015-08-27 14:01:14:275 952 870 AU Launched new AU client for directive 'Download Progress', session id = 0x2
2015-08-27 14:01:14:275 596 360 Misc =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.6.7600.256, tz: +1200) ===========
2015-08-27 14:01:14:275 596 360 Misc = Process: C:\Windows\system32\wuauclt.exe
2015-08-27 14:01:14:275 596 360 AUClnt Launched Client UI process
2015-08-27 14:01:14:291 596 360 Misc =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.6.7600.256, tz: +1200) ===========
2015-08-27 14:01:14:291 596 360 Misc = Process: C:\Windows\system32\wuauclt.exe
2015-08-27 14:01:14:291 596 360 Misc = Module: C:\Windows\system32\wucltux.dll
2015-08-27 14:01:14:291 596 360 CltUI AU client got new directive = 'Download Progress', serviceId = {3DA21691-E39D-4DA6-8A4B-B43877BCB1B7}, return = 0
2015-08-27 14:01:22:509 952 854 DnldMgr Error 0x80072ee2 occurred while downloading update; notifying dependent calls.
2015-08-27 14:01:22:509 952 774 AU AU checked download status and it changed: Downloading is paused
2015-08-27 14:01:22:509 596 360 CltUI AU client got new directive = 'Shutdown', serviceId = {3DA21691-E39D-4DA6-8A4B-B43877BCB1B7}, return = 0
2015-08-27 14:01:22:525 952 870 AU AU received handle event
2015-08-27 14:13:40:033 952 a94 Report Uploading 5 events using cached cookie, reporting URL = https://wsus.modrus.net/ReportingWebService/ReportingWebService.asmx
2015-08-27 14:13:41:877 952 a94 PT WARNING: ReportEventBatch failure, error = 0x8024400D, soap client error = 7, soap error code = 300, HTTP status code = 200
2015-08-27 14:13:41:877 952 a94 PT WARNING: SOAP Fault: 0x00012c
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 PT WARNING: faultstring:Fault occurred
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 PT WARNING: ErrorCode:ConfigChanged(2)
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 PT WARNING: Message:(null)
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 PT WARNING: Method:"http://www.microsoft.com/SoftwareDistribution/ReportEventBatch"
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 PT WARNING: ID:0bb03b45-4ed0-4da3-8c24-294b00332302
2015-08-27 14:13:41:892 952 a94 Report WARNING: Reporter failed to upload events with hr = 8024400d.

Am I going about this in the wrong way? Are there other logs I need to look at? How else might I disable flash updates without messing with the catalog updates from Adobe as it takes so much time to create custom updates I want to try and make this as easy to maintain as possible.

Thanks again for the great product!
Mark,