Windows / Intune error

0X8007007B

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Symbol / family
ERROR_INVALID_NAME
Signed decimal
-2147024773
Unsigned decimal
2147942523

What it means here

Windows rejected a malformed path, URI-like value, drive specification, or name.

Technical reference: Microsoft documentation or Microsoft-hosted support material

Resolution playbook

From symptom to verified fix

Start with evidence, change one variable at a time, and confirm the result before closing the incident.

1

Likely causes

  • Windows rejected a malformed path, URI-like value, drive specification, or name.
  • The failing operation supplied invalid, missing, stale, or locked state.
  • A dependency, service, file, registry item, or resource was unavailable at the time of the call.
2

Recommended fix

  1. Inspect the expanded value for illegal characters, quoting, and doubled separators.
  2. Validate UNC paths and drive mappings in the executing account's session.
  3. Check whether a deployment tool expects a local path, URL, or OMA-URI instead.
3

Verify

  1. Repeat the smallest operation that originally failed.
  2. Confirm the same HRESULT does not recur at the matching timestamp.
  3. Check the management console or service report for a fresh successful state, not only a client-side message.
4

Escalate when

  • The error persists after the relevant checks and a clean retry.
  • Multiple devices, users, or networks show the same failure, suggesting service or policy scope.
  • You can provide the exact UTC time, operation, device/build, correlation identifiers, and the relevant event or service logs.
Capture recent matching system errors
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName='System'; Level=2; StartTime=(Get-Date).AddHours(-2)} | Select-Object -First 40 TimeCreated,ProviderName,Id,Message

Read-only. Narrow the time window to the failure before sharing the output.

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