Windows 8 Enterprise error code: 0x800F0906 “Windows couldn’t connect to the Internet to download necessary files”
I fought with this one for nearly 8 hours today, attempting to install SSMS from SQL 2012. This requires that the .Net Framework 3.5 and 2.0 be activated in Windows Features. Sure, there’s a checkbox that you “should” be able to check and everything works fine. Well, not for me. I check it, click OK, it tells me it needs to download files from Windows Update, I say OK, and it throws this error. Basic troubleshooting courtesy of Google says…