Questions tagged [windows-installer]
Windows Installer (which was previously named Microsoft Installer) is a component of modern Microsoft Windows systems used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. It is a competitor to other, 3rd party installation software, such as Install Shield.
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What could be causing MsiInstaller to continuously reconfigure applications(EventID 1035)?
I have a brand-new machine that we just installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on about two months ago. In the event log, I am seeing thousands of EventID 1035 logged. This is MsiInstaller ...
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How can I eliminate the huge, cached MSI files in C:\Windows\Installer?
The size of the MSI cache folder (C:\Windows\Installer) has grown substantially, and is now taking up way too much disk space on my (domain) computers. Can this folder be eliminated or shrunk?
Same ...
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GPO MSI Install - Error 1305.Error reading from file
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Adobe Reader DC msi
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I'm trying to install Adobe Reader remotely and silently to a set of PCs in a Windows Domain.
I have setup a network share, ABC-Deploy$, containing the ...
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SQL Server - Windows Active Directory users
I am actually using SQL server for my application. If I work with one user (Install and Update app with WIX installer) everything works good, but if I try to change me windows user account to the ...
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Windows Installer GPO - "Prohibit user installs" value is missing on Windows 7
The old Windows XP GPO template had three options for "Windows Installer\Prohibit user installs":
Allow user installs
Hide user installs
Prohibit user installs
The new Windows 7 template has only ...
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Why Windows Installer can only install a single program at a time?
I have always been wondering why Windows Installer only allows you to install one program at a time. It is very frustrating not to be able to launch multiple installations, especially when setting up ...
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how to fix dll registration error with msi?
there is a setup file created by installshield, so used silent switch and deployed the application.
newer version of same exe is available now, when deployed with silent switch, during upgrade it is ...
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Roll back suspended .MSI install from command-line
We deployed a Java installer to a large number of machines, and it froze up on about half of them. Now, subsequent deployments are failing because of the following message:
User 'SYSTEM' has ...
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Installing MSI to ASP.NET Core App Service Windows Container
I'm trying to use Visual Studio 2019 to develop a ASP.NET Core 3.1 app running in Docker for Windows. I'm having a few problems with this. I need to host an endpoint to start and stop a service and ...
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How to check if a Product is installed from launch condition of msi?
We are creating an msi, which is a sidecar/config for our main product ,an installshied exe(embedded an msi inside).
This new msi should be installed only when the main msi is already installed on the ...
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How do I determine what the Windows Installer (msiexec) is doing?
After rolling out a new software package, I'm seeing high CPU usage on machines. One process that seems to be really active is msiexec, which really shouldn't be running. I'm watching it in process ...
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Dpinst is showing the UI screen even after sending silent parameters, how to fix that?
The OS version:
The Dpinst window I am seeing:
The command I am using to suppress the window, but not working here.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\IA\Eclipse\FTDI Drivers\dpinst64.exe&...
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Running a software on your machine without any download/install. How it works
Googling didn't help a lot. May be I am not using the right keywords. I am having a little hard time how to describe the question, so let me describe the scenario and hopefully someone can point me to ...
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Find GUID of MSI Package
How can I find the GUID of an MSI package? I would like to script the removal of a program on a large number of desktops by using:
msiexec.exe /x ProductCode
Any reason why this would not work ...
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MSI on Windows 10 won't register OCX (even when run as admin)
Got an MSI built using a Visual Studio Installer project. The resulting MSI was developed on Windows 7 some years back, and works fine there.
There is a merge module (MSM) that is supposed to dump ...
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Windows Server 2019 - Windows Installer - Temp path + session id
I'm logged in via Remote Desktop Connection as a domain user on a Windows Server 2019 (OS Build 17763.1432).
I tried to install an .exe file but directly getting the error: "0x8007010b - ...
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Is it possible to disable msiexec help GUI?
I'm automating unattended retrieval & installation of specified .msi packages with a powershell script but if the command is invoked with syntax errors the msiexec will wait indefinitely for an OK ...
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"Setup cannot continue because a required file is either corrupted or not available [...]" error during Windows 7 Professional installation
I encounter the following error during Windows installation:
Setup cannot continue because a required file is either
corrupted or not available. Run Setup again from the original
source disc or ...
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How can I get an InstallShield Package to install as the SYSTEM user, or from SCCM?
There is a piece of software that I am trying to package that uses an InstallShield installer. I have tried the /r and get the C:\Windows\setup.iss file, and call the package via
start "" /wait %~...
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What causes Installshield to fail (error: 1628)?
I'm trying to setup a DB/C FS 4.0 ODBC driver on our server to connect to a client's database, and am receiving an error from the Installshield executable: "1628: Failed to complete installation.&...
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Windows Installer always says "Another program is being installed"
Somewhere some software install must have died. Now when I try to install software, I get popup message from the Windows Installer saying "Another program is being installed. Please wait until that ...
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Windows Installer: The system cannot open the device or file specified
I downloaded as Administrator in Chrome an installer .msi file [Citrix XenCenter Management; so it's not an exotic program] on a Windows Server 2012 R2 into a drive F: which is hosted on the SBS and ...
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How to undo applications installed “as admin”?
On Server 2016 installed an application by running setup 'as admin'. Now that the app is up and running, I'm really wishing I hadn't installed it as admin. Aside from uninstalling/reinstalling, is ...
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install application on a mounted WIM file
Every night my build server creates an updated WIM image by mounting, updating my application files and unmounting. then I have an updated nightly wim file.
I want to take this nightly image and ...
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Troubleshoot msiexec removing dotnet Core
I am attempting to upgrade ASP.NET Core from 2.0.3 to 2.1.5 on a group of servers. I am using a Powershell script that looks something like this:
$software = Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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Can normal users be granted permission to run signed installers (MSI)?
I'm working on deploying a .NET desktop application via ClickOnce and need the users to be able to run the prerequisite installers. Normal users generally do not have permission to run installers, but ...
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Install Multiple Instances of Windows Service using WiX Toolset
I want to install an msi multiple times on a machine. The purpose of this is to install multiple instances of a service with different service names.
I am able to install one service with a user ...
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Remote installing programs by scripts or batch files
Firstly, I can't use Group Policy as our team doesn't manage that. The company is a massive FTSE company with a team for every aspect of IT you can think of.
Our team needs a way of installing ...
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I want to install an MSI twice
I have a peculiar wish to install an msi twice on a machine.
The purpose of the double install is to first install under the pre-production folder, run the deployment in a safe environment prior to ...
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How can I speed up MSI package install and uninstall?
When installing and uninstalling Windows Installer packages, or MSI files as they are called, the progress of the installation appears signifiantly slower than with other installation packages.
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Get MSI log for Active Setup
One of my users has Outlook unable to start with "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Window" and I've already ruled out existing add-ins. (This is just for background ...
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App MSI install hangs up on newly imaged PCs (Win10) [closed]
I'm working on an issue that got kicked up to me from Tier 1. I have a proprietary app that's built into an MSI for deployment with a VBscript. I didn't do the build and I don't have access to the ...
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How can I compare the content of two (or more) MSI files?
How can I do a "content compare" of two (or more) MSI files and see what is actually different inside the files - instead of doing a useless binary compare? (which obviously only tells me if I am ...
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The corporate benefits of using MSI files
What are the advantages of using .msi files over regular setup.exe files?
I have the impression that deployment is easier on machines where users have few permissions, but not sure about the details....
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Running Windows Installer in Safe Mode
When Windows 10 is started in safe mode, windows installer is not normally available.
I would like to be able to run windows installer in safe mode, to test a setup program which crashes in standard ...
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Deploying Applications via MDT Fails
I'm setting up a test lab for using MDT at our organization and I've been having trouble getting the installs to run properly. So far I only have an older copy (5.2) of RealVNC working.
My ...
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Unable to install features Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a lot of servers that we are unable to install any new features on them. when we try to install them, we get an error that "The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed....
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Remotly obtain an application's Windows Installer patches via WMI or Powershell
I'm working on a remote administration app which needs to be able to obtain a list of patches which have been applied to an application. This Support article suggests there are two ways they could be ...
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How can I uninstall SQL Server 2016 CTP3.3 from Windows 7 (and bypass the uninstaller's OS version check)?
I had a temporary need to use MS SQL server, so I installed Microsoft SQL Server 2016 CTP3.3 on my Windows 7 machine because it was easily available. It installed successfully, and I was able to get ...
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How to remove unnecessary Installer files from Microsoft Office Installer?
I am trying to deploy Microsoft InfoPath 2013 using SCCM. InfoPath was only ever included in the MSOffice 2013 installer, not as a standalone. (I think there is a 365 standalone now days, but we don't ...
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Burn large ISO installer on multiple dual-layer DVDs [closed]
Hi I have a really large ISO installer (larger than one dual-layer DVD) and is there a way to burn it onto two DVDs? Thanks.
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Quickest manual way to check what version of the Windows Installer is installed?
I have a production server and need to know what version of the windows installer is running, what's a quick way to find this out without running the 4.5 installer on the server?
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Having trouble running a .MSI on a Windows 2008 R2 Server
We've got a new Windows 2008 R2 Web Server. I've got a couple of old, but vital, ASP.NET apps that I'm trying to migrate off of an older 2003 R2 server, onto this new 2008 R2 server. The ASP.NET ...
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Unable to launch MSI installers off NFS share
I have a Linux server where I've configured a read only NFS share. The client I'm currently working on is a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that has the NFS features installed. I'm able to open and ...
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How can I list all installed applications including those installed in per-user context?
I can run wmic product to get a list of all installed software. This command will list any software installed in the system context, or per-user context for the logged in user. However, this command ...
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Keep Windows Installer from using largest drive for temporary files
By default Windows Installer uses the largest drive for temporary storage, no matter if that's needed (meaning there would also be enough space on the system drive).
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how to Install java run-time /jre on a custom path using a Batch script?
Im trying to create a bat file to make an unattended installation with sccm.
I downloaded jre-7u55-windows-i586.exe from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-...
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What, exactly, is the SCCM client doing when it installs an .msi for a system?
I've been working with a particular .msi (AppleApplicationSupport.msi). I have installed it two different ways which I thought would be equivalent. However the results differ as follows.
PSEXEC -i -...
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Sideload appx packages via Intune as MSI
In our environment, we have Windows 8.1 Enterprise domain joined computers that are typically never on a company network. We use Microsoft Intune to remotely manage the laptops. We also use Intune to ...
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Multiple instances of standalone installer
So the company I am working at has multiple Vm's that need patching. Mainly Windows Server 2008. A lot of the updates are blocked due to them causing issues on the build systems. However the ...
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