Error Code: 30029-4 when trying to repair an Office 365 Office Install

Error Code: 30029-4 when trying to repair an Office 365 Office Install

I ran into an issue where a users install of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 (365 version) was acting odd and crashing so I wanted to do a repair. I went into the usual Programs and Features and went to change to do the repair, but no matter what repair option I tried I got Error Code: 30029-4.

Running Microsoft update also wouldn’t grab Office Updates due to my install being rather broken at this point. Oddly enough Office still worked for the most part and normally I would of just re-installed at this point, but the user didn’t know his account password.

What I did was go to File –> Office Account and then under Update Options there was a option to Update Now.

This method of updating my Office 365 supplied copy of 2013 worked great and finally updated my copy to the latest version.

I then gave the computer a reboot and the repair options both worked again!