Windows 10: Cumulative Update 23H2 Will Not Update ~ Even After Several Deep Dives

I've been trying for at least the last couple of months to get both of my computersdesktop and laptop to install update 23H2, neither of them will.I've done several deep teep dives. Secure Boot is on, TPM 2.0 is on, UEFI is enabled.I've followed all the steps below several times and nothing works, It still absolutly will not update.It gets to 95% then says something went wrong and it undoes the changes.Please help...Steps followed as mentioned above...* Open CMD as Administrator * kill services Make sure service stops correctly net stop bits Background Intelligent Transfer Service net st

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23H2 update

I read that you need cumulative update KB5031455 (October) installed in order to get the 23H2 update. I'm sure this is the one that, no matter what I did would not install. I have updated a couple of cumulative updates since 455 was issued. Should I try to install it again to get 23H2? I don't see that update number in update history.

 

Windows Cumulative Updates failing to install

I'm having a large number of failures installing the December and now the January Cumulative updates for Widows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The specific updates are:
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MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

MS23-DEC: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5033375 (x64)

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MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 - Windows 11 Version 23H2 - KB5034123 (x64)

MS24-JAN: Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 - Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5034123 (x64)
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I have followed the instructions detailed by David-M in this post: Windows Update failing to install - Microsoft Community and others with similiar steps, none of the steps have succeeded. I have tried using Windows Update locally, pushing the updates from our asset management software and even downloaded the specific CU locally, and running the installer/update. Regardless of the method, the install universally fails with: "Install error - 0x800f081f"

On the 22H2 systems I have also tried upgrading to 23H2 and generally speaking those fail as well. Does anyone have a similar experience and found a way through this?

 

WINDOWS 23H2 UPDATE IS NOT SHOWING

Please try this tiny enablement package, which upgrades the OS to 23H2.

https://catalog.sf.dl.delivery.mp.m..._3a9c368e239bb928c32a790cf1663338d2cad472.msu

You must have the following prerequisite installed before applying this update:

• October 31, 2023—KB5031455 (OS Builds 22621.2506 and 22631.2506) Preview or a later cumulative update
  

More Info:

KB5027397: Feature update to Windows 11, version 23H2 by using an enablement package - Microsoft Support: KB5027397: Feature update to Windows 11, version 23H2 by using an enablement package - Microsoft Support