Re: IE8 MSI not installing through Group Policy

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Ctrl-Alt-Del did nothing.
I left it running to do other things and about an hour or two later the
login prompt finally appeared. I logged in and the even log shows the
software installed "successfully," and so does group policy (appmgmt reg key
set that says software gpo was already applied).
However, it was NOT really installed. IE6 is still there.

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:


"Mygposts" <Mygposts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0868D77C-36CD-4A4E-BBD8-41A7942D64E1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have almost exactly the same issue as in this link except with IE8

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33043264/installing-ie7-msi-from-i.aspx

I'm using the msi file IEAK created in the FLAT folder and copied it to a
network share.
The GPO appears to work, but the machine hangs at "Installing managed
Software Internet Explorer"
I can move the mouse around, but there is no disk activity.

When I power the machine off and on,


Can't you interrupt it any better than that? E.g. Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
You are bound to be losing much useful diagnostics that way.


there are no errors listed in the
Application event log related to this software install.


What about in the install log?


If I click on the msi file locally, I can install it manually with no problem.


Then you have a comparison case to work with.



Is there a fix for this?


I would try using ProcMon to capture traces of both attempts
and then compare them for differences. Note that one useful thing
ProcMon will do for you this way is get a some context for each log
record. (Actually not each log record directly but a WRITE to the log
which could then be inferred to be a specific log record by its length
and the pattern of lengths in the log.)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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