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cjahn50
Iron Contributor
Apr 16, 2021

Updates are having an emotional moment

Hey all - Just FYI.

 

I noticed this morning that checking for updates on all my Edge versions - released, Canary and Dev was spitting up an error.

 

An error occurred while checking for updates: Unable to connect to the Internet. If you use a firewall, please allowlist MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe. (error code 7: 0x800421F7 -- system level).Learn more
 
The error code means the update server is busy.
 
From Microsoft:
 

Error 0x800421f7

The update server is busy, try again later.

 

 

Hope this helps if anyone else is seeing this.

  • PGomersall's avatar
    PGomersall
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 16, 2021
    Seems to be effecting all versions of Edge from Stable to Canary
  • Rohit Yadav's avatar
    Rohit Yadav
    Bronze Contributor
    Apr 16, 2021
    I had this error on all of my installations, and screw me I was thinking it is my internet acting up 😕
    • cjahn50's avatar
      cjahn50
      Iron Contributor
      Apr 16, 2021
      You would think someone at Microsoft would have changed the message to somethine like

      The update server is busy, try again later.

      But instead the message we get is much more serious, scary and of no useful value 🙂

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