Thursday, 8 March 2012

Installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 8

We needed .NET 3.5 in order to install Windows Live components (though Mesh refuses to install).

12-03-07 Win8 - 3 DotNET fails to download

We went in to add a new Windows Feature and hit the above error.

Windows Features

Windows couldn't complete the requested changes.

Windows couldn’t connect to the Internet to download necessary files. Make sure you are connected to the Internet, and press “Retry” to try again.

Error code: 0x800F0906

A search for “Windows 8 0x800F0906” turned up:

So, we did the following:

  1. Open Windows Explorer
  2. Mount the Windows 8 client ISO by right clicking on it.
  3. type CMD and CTRL+SHFT+ENTER to get to an elevated command prompt from Metro.
  4. dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFX3 /All /Source:H:\Sources\SxS /LimitAccess

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Once complete we ejected the Windows 8 client ISO and were able to move on to installing Windows Live components.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

Windows Live Writer

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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 May, 2012 04:56

    Works like a charm, thank you for good instructions!

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  2. Unknown14 June, 2012 15:23

    awwsome. Thanks for the instructions.

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  3. Unknown14 June, 2012 15:24

    awwsome thanks

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  4. Unknown25 July, 2012 04:33

    Hi,

    I get this error while trying:

    C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFX3 /All /Source:H:\sources/sxs/LimitAccess Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 6.2.8400.0 Image Version: 6.2.8400.0 Enabling feature(s) [===========================65.8%====== ] Error: 0x800f081f The source files could not be found. Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077. The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

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  5. Omtiesto25 October, 2012 04:08

    hi i get this error too :\


    C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFX3 /All /Source:H:\sources/sxs/LimitAccess Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 6.2.8400.0 Image Version: 6.2.8400.0 Enabling feature(s) [===========================65.8%====== ] Error: 0x800f081f The source files could not be found. Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077. The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

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  6. stryqx22 November, 2012 23:36

    MSKB 2734782 covers this:
    Error codes when you try to install the .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 or in Windows Server 2012

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  7. Unknown14 January, 2013 11:52

    I get this error too!

    Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
    Version: 6.2.8250.0

    Image Version: 6.2.8250.0

    Enabling feature(s)
    [===========================65.8%====== ]

    Error: 0x800f081f

    The source files could not be found.
    Use the /source option to specify the location of the files that are required to
    restore the feature. The file location should be either the root directory of a
    mounted image or a component store that has the Windows Side-by-Side directory
    as an immediate subfolder.

    The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

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