Last week I had Monday off, and I never got around to doing my 1 year ago post, so I’m really combining two weeks into this one. Work was so busy that I didn’t even do my wallpaper post, or Friday links post. I’ll try to make up for it this week.

A year ago I had just started getting into Podcast books, and told everyone about a great site to download Podcast Novels. I still make great use of this site. As a matter of fact, just today I posted about how to help a podcast novel author, and I first discovered her work over on PodioBooks.

Continuing on with the podcast novel theme, I also did a review of EarthCore and the author, Scott Sigler, was kind enough to drop by and leave a comment. Scott illustrated one facet of podcast authors, they love their audience, and really respond to their fans. Just the other day I received a response to an email I sent him.

On the technical side of things, there was a huge Skype outage, which was blamed on Windows Update rebooting a whole bunch of computers at the same time, and I told you how you can manually download definitions for Windows Defender.

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There are two errors associated with this:

“The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0×80246007″

“The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0×80246008″

I saw this error when one of my computers was trying to install updates from Windows Server Update Services, but you may also see it when you are trying to connect to the Windows Update site, or when you are trying to install updates downloaded from the Windows Update site.

In my case it was an issue with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) needing to be re-registered. These steps are all outlined in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 883822.

To re-register the service, perform the following steps:

1. Click on Start then Run
2. Type “cmd” and click on “OK” or press enter.
3. In the Command Prompt Window, type in “regsvr32 qmgr.dll” then press enter. A window should pop up stating that “DllRegisterServer in qmgr.dll succeeded” Click “OK”.
4. In the Command Prompt Window, type in “regsvr32 qmgrprxy.dll ” then press enter. A window should pop up stating that “DllRegisterServer in qmgrprxy.dll succeeded” Click “OK”.
5. Close the command Prompt Window.

Now you should be able to install updates, but if you’ve been having this problem for awhile, you may need to install a whole slew of updates to get caught up.

The knowledge base article says that Microsoft Update and Microsoft Windows Update are the affected products. I saw the issue on Windows XP Pro, SP2.

References

MS KB 883822 - You receive a “The necessary services are disabled or unavailable” error message when you connect to the Microsoft Windows Update Web site or to the Microsoft Update Web site. - Microsoft

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