MS SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Failed to Update

[piglovesrat15]

Hello,

We have some Windows XP SP3 computers at work came from the instrument vendors with their proprietary instrument software pre-installed along with MS Office and MS SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2 or SP3. Before the workstations can be added to the domain, we have to change the computer names to our standard naming convention. When MS released SQL Server 2005 Express Edition security updates or SP, now is up to SP4, those workstations failed to install via WSUS. I have tried to manually download the updates, change keys in the Registry and everything that I found online but still no luck.

So I was wondering the updates failed to install is because the change in computer name. Anyone has any thoughts or ideas? I plan to change the computer name back to when SQL Server 2005 Express Edition was installed and try to run the updates.

Thanks for reading.