In this post, we’ll look at the Wndows Update Error Message “0x80244001 – WU_E_PT_SOAPCLIENT_INITIALIZE” that is usually displayed when things go wrong during the update process.
Note that this Windows Update error is application for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Error Message
0x80244001 – WU_E_PT_SOAPCLIENT_INITIALIZE
Windows Update Error Details
Same as SOAPCLIENT_INITIALIZE_ERROR – initialization of the SOAP client failed possibly because of an MSXML installation failure.