I recently took the leap to move from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Now at first glance I was quite impressed with Windows 8. It seem to respond very well (its normally what a MS operating system does after a fresh install hey?), and I actually love the new way of navigating and flat clean look and feel they got going.
So I started re installing all my favorite apps such as mRemoteNG and XenCenter. I found out that by default Windows 8 ships with .NET 4 and that .NET 3.X has to be enabled as a feature.
After trying to enable .NET 3.5 I was confronted with the following error:
Windows couldn’t complete the requested changes. Windows couldn’t connect to the internet to download necessary files. Make sure that you’re connected to the internet, and click ‘Retry’. Error code: 0x800F0906
It seems as though the connection to the online sources for the .NET framework isn’t accessible even though my connection to the Internet was fine at the time.
After searching around I found a way to enable this feature from the Windows 8 DVD by issuing the following command from within an elevated command prompt, which seems to resolve the issue:
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess