Error 0x80070193 – Automatic Deployment Rules Software Updates (ADR) SCCM

So the other day… I was setting up one of my clients Automatic Deployment Rules (ADR) for SCEP Definition Updates. Everything went fine until I went to run the rule and I saw “HttpSendRequest failed HTTP_STATUS_FORBIDDEN or HTTP_STATUS_DENIED” followed by “ERROR: DownloadContentFiles() failed with hr=0x80070193” in the PatchDownloader.Log file.

PatchDownloader.Log error 80070193
ERROR: DownloadContentFiles() failed with hr=0x80070193

This was a shock as this error usually only occurs when the traffic is blocked by a proxy server and at this customer site I was told to bypass the proxy using DNS host targeting.

After some trial and error it dawned on me. The System account of the machine must still be pointing to the clients proxy or using a PAC file. So I grabbed my trusty tool PSEXEC and spawned a CMD as System using a CMD as Administrator and the command: “PSEXEC.EXE -I -S CMD”

psexec_systemcmd
PSEXEC to launch CMD as “System”

After this I navigated to “c:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer” and launched “Iexplore.exe”.

Run Internet Explorer as System
Run Internet Explorer as System

Then I navigated in IE to Tools, Internet Options and finally LAN Settings, and her presto there it was, it was grabbing a PAC file!

Automatically detect settings selected.
Automatically detect settings selected.

So I checked if I could browse to MSN and sure enough I was blocked.

With Automatically detect Settings enabled
With Automatically detect Settings enabled

So I unticked the box, restarted IE from the System CMD and tried again…  MSN! First time I think I had ever been happy to see that laggy page!

Without Automatically detect settings enabled.
Without Automatically detect settings enabled.

Jumped back into ConfigMgr (SCCM) and ran my ADR rule to find all definitions downloading successfully. Hope that’s helps someone out!

Successfully downloading definition patches!
Successfully downloading definition patches!

 

 

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