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Heather_Poulsen
Updated Jun 04, 2026
Javian
Jun 04, 2026Occasional Reader
I work for a small company and all our rollouts for the update have gone well for user workstations, however I am having difficulty updating windows server 2016 VM's. They are returning an error:
"The Secure Boot update failed to update a Secure Boot variable with error The parameter is incorrect." Event ID 1796
I have not been able to find a solution for this as it is so vague, are there any troubleshooting steps to take to identify the actual problem?
- mihiJun 04, 2026Iron Contributor
dupe. Answered it on the other one.