Windows 8 is not getting updates (Solution)

Windows 8 is not getting updates. What are the symptoms, how to understand and resolve?

I check the WUAHandler.log file.

CWuaHandler::SetCategoriesForStateReportingExclusion called with E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B;E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B,A38C835C-2950-4E87-86CC-6911A52C34A3; for leaves and E0789628-CE08-4437-BE74-2495B842F43B,A38C835C-2950-4E87-86CC-6911A52C34A3; for bundles        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 16:30:51        3764 (0x0EB4)

Scan results will include all superseded updates.        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 23:56:00        2904 (0x0B58)

Search Criteria is ((DeploymentAction=* AND Type=’Software’ AND CategoryIDs contains ‘0FA1201D-4330-4FA8-8AE9-B877473B6441′) OR (DeploymentAction=* AND Type=’Software’ AND CategoryIDs contains ‘2EE2AD83-828C-4405-9479-544D767993FC’) OR (DeploymentAction=* AND Type=’Software’ AND CategoryIDs contains ‘BFE5B177-A086-47A0-B102-097E4FA1F807′) OR (DeploymentAction=* AND Type=’Software’ AND CategoryIDs contains ‘E6CF1350-C01B-414D-A61F-263D14D133B4′) OR (DeploymentAction=* AND Type=’Software’ AND CategoryIDs contains ‘CD5FFD1E-E932-4E3A-BF74-18BF0B1BBD83’))        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 23:56:00        2904 (0x0B58)

Async searching of updates using WUAgent started.        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 23:56:00        2904 (0x0B58)

Async searching completed.        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 23:56:11        404 (0x0194)

Successfully completed scan.        WUAHandler        23.1.2013 23:56:11        2904 (0x0B58)

I checked the update.log file and everything seems to be working correctly

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