KB 953297 and KB974417 Fails to Update Through Windows Update

These two updates got released as High Priority Update, but it failed in lots of machine. I worked and got response from few of them where they tried the temporary fix that is uninstalling and reinstalling the Framework. Microsoft Team is already working to find if there is any other way we can fix this or to drill the actual root cause of the issue. The people with whom I worked provided the below steps and the response was positive.

After checking the various problem description, it looks like the existing version of the framework is also corrupted and due to which the installation is failing. I am listing few steps please perform and let me know the result of the same.

· https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe

· The above will download the complete redistributable of Framework 3.5 SP1

· The next link I am providing is to remove the previous versions of Framework. I will recommend you cleaning the Framework from 3.5 followed by previous version

· https://blogs.msdn.com/joy/attachment/8764623.ashx

· Once the cleanup is done reboot the computer and install the framework redistributable downloaded

Once again I would like to add the above resolution is temporary and Microsoft is working getting more details and the root cause of the failure from the information we collected.