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  Install not allowed as another job is still in progress Security updates deployments to Servers Having an issue with a ConfigMgr client not installing updates No errors just showing  “ Install not allow as another job is still in progress”      or  “Security updates preparing for installation” Even after the reboot, machine policy reset, no resolution  There are no errors in the log files  UpdateDeployment.log  except showing the messages saying   "Install not allow as another job is still in progress" Steps to be followed  Kindly use SCCM Client Center to Repair WMI its more effective  SCCM Client Center to "Delete root\ccm" (button under Repair WMI) to delete the CCM Namespace from WMI. These steps worked and the SCCM service (SMS Agent Host) came back online, software updates scan took place and assignments started to apply. Updates began to download and apply as normal....

WMI Error messages in execmgr.log file on SCCM clients   ·          Failed to open to WMI namespace '\.rootccmPolicyMachine' (8007045b) ·          Failed to ConnectSettings for ICcmPolicyAgent in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::ConnectToNamespace ·          Failed to ConnectToNamespace in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::GetMachinePolicy ·          Failed to connect to machine policy name space. 0x8007045b ·          Failed to connect to user policy name space ·          CSoftwareDistPolicyMgr::GetSWDistSiteSettings failed to connect to machine namespace ·          Failed to instantiate UI Server {C2F23AE4-82D8-456F-A4AF-A2655D8CA726} with error 8000401a ·        ...