Can't Install ISA!

Hi all,

Hope this is the appropriate forum? If the ISA group is more
appropriate please let me know...

Setup is a single Windows 2003 Small Business server with SP2 and R2.
Has been working fine for a long time (all aspects, Exchange,
management functions, etc).

Decided that I needed ISA on there due to some recent security
problems and as it's included I thought "why not?".

When I run the ISA 2004 installer from the premium technologies (R2)
disc, it gets as far as installing the MSDE and then fails with:

Wizard cannot install ISA Server 2004. Please try again. If this
problem persists go to http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusinessserver.../sbs/support.

I found this post http://www.eggheadcafe.com/aspnet_answers/isaenterprise/Apr2006/post26676640.asp
where someone reports the same issue, and tried the resolution. That
is:

Launch the ISA 2004 MSI package manually and install ISA: <cd drive>:
\ISA2004\FPC\MS_FPC_SERVER.MSI

This installs with no problems and prompts me to reboot. I reboot the
server, and then try to run Setup.exe to install the remaining
components, but it gives me the error:

"error opening installation log file varify that the specified log
file location exists and is writable"

When I search for this message, I see a lot of sites listing the
Windows Installer error codes but no real solutions, and I'm quite
lost on how to proceed. There is nothing recorded in Windows event
viewer related to this.

I have tried running Setup.exe both from the installation media, and
also by copying all files to a local disk. Same thing. I'm running as
domain administrator so I don't think it can be a permissions issue.
Does anyone know where the installer is trying to create the log file?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks in advance for any advice

Richard

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