Failed to Add Update Source for WUAgent of type (2) and id ({XXXXXX}). Error = 0x80004005.

Failed to Add Update Source for WUAgent of type (2) and id ({XXXXXX}). Error = 0x80004005.

OR

Software Update Error 0x80004005 on client systems

*******This is Generic error message*******

WUAHandler.log

Updatedeployment.log

UpdatesHandler.log

Updates scan completion received, result = 0x80004005.

Solution: 

This issue appears to be with currupted policy info locally on the machine.
There are few reasons why Windows update will not work properly with SCCM Agent.

Here are way to fix this issues

• Stop the SMS agent services.
• Rename the Registry.pol file

 C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Registry.pol to 

 C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Registry.pol.old

•    Restart the SMS agent service

•   Go to control panel -> configuration Manager ->

Run the Software update Scan cycle and Software Update deployment Evaluation Cycle in 

Configmgr Action tab.

And review the WuaHandler.log and UpdateDeployment.log

WUAHandler.log:

Waiting for 2 mins for Group Policy to notify of WUA policy change...  
Waiting for 30 secs for policy to take effect on WU Agent.
Added Update Source ({BC44D0B-2643-48E8-9245-9F2B78DD53}) of content type: 2
Async searching of updates using WUAgent started.
Async searching completed.
Successfully completed scan

  

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