Re: Exit Code 1603 When Setting Up Visual Studio .NET 2003 Using SMS

From: Shehzad Khoja [MSFT] (srkhoja_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:50:30 -0800

Hi Paul

1603 is a very generic error and it means 'Fatal error during installation.'
To get exact message yu will have to look into VS setup log which is created
in %TEMP% folder.

Hope this helps. 

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"Paul Anderson" <paul.anderson@eaifhe.REMOVE_NOSPAM.ac.uk> wrote in message 
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>I am setting up Visual Studio .NET 2003 using SMS by following this 
>Microsoft article:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327792 : "How to 
> deploy Visual Studio .NET 2003 by using Systems Management Server"
>
> I've created the collections, packages, programs and advertisements for 
> the prerequisites and the main application suite.  However, although the 
> prerequisites deploy without a glitch, something strange is happening when 
> I deploy the main suite - Visual Studio .NET.
>
> As soon as the advertised program starts to run, the exit code 1603 is 
> returned to SMS and the following message appears in the advertisement 
> status.
>
> "The program for advertisement "NEW2008C" failed ("NEW0006C" - "Microsoft 
> Visual Studio .NET 2003"). A failure exit code of 1603 was returned.
> User context: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
>
> Possible cause: Systems Management Server (SMS) determines status for each 
> program it executes. If SMS cannot find or correlate any installation 
> status Management Information Format (MIF) files for the program, it uses 
> the program's exit code to determine status. An exit code of 1603 is 
> considered a failure.
> Solution: For more information on the exit code, refer to the 
> documentation for the program you are distributing."
>
> However, the strange thing is the setup process on the client continues 
> and, after the msiexec.exe process closes, I can run VS.NET.  It loads 
> without error.  If I go into the Control Panel and open the Run Advertised 
> Programs applet, VS .NET shows as failed.
>
> I'm deploying VS.NET for a large number of users and want to be able to 
> verify that each deployment is completely successful.  This exit code 
> indicates failure, but gives no more information.  I'm not familiar with 
> using VS.NET, so can't thoroughly test it.  Also, I'm new to SMS and am 
> still learning the ropes.  I'd really appreciate some help on this one :)
>
> Here's the detail:
>
> Client O/S: Windows XP Pro SP2
> SMS server o/s: Windows Server 2003
> SMS version: 2.50.3174.1000
> Visual Studio .NET MSDE version 7.1.3088
>
> I've double-checked the advertised program and tried specifying the vs.ini 
> file using the default folder (vs.ini), the setup folder (setup\vs.ini) 
> and the fully qualified UNC path (as given below) and all produce the same 
> result:
>
> smswrapper.exe setup\setup.exe /unattendfile 
> "\\campus\software$\microsoft\Visual Studio.net 
> 2003\VS72003\VS\Setup\vs.ini" /no_bsln_check
>
> I've searched the Net and found that exit code 1603 is an unspecified 
> failure.  Has anyone else experienced this problem ?  Can you help me out 
> as an SMS newbie ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Paul Anderson
> IT Support
> East Antrim Institute of Further & Higher Education
>
>

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