Comments on: Deploying Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP via Group Policy

By: Nick Brown

Nick Brown — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:50:46 +0000

Good point. With a bit more work it would be possible to add the necessary logic to the installer to detect whether each component is needed or not and skip the installation custom action by using an appropriate CONDITION statement.

By: jetpax

jetpax — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:58:39 +0000

Try running the exe’s on one of your XP clients separately first.

I found that when I executed the XMLlite install independently (ie as an exe) on XP SP3 it failed, since it was not required. So I removed it from the the MSI and Orca mods.

My GPCSE also failed to run directly on a client, but that was because I found I had accidently downloaded the 64bit version.

Once I had put the 32 bit in the MSI, it worked perfectly.

By: Ohad

Ohad — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:59:50 +0000

I have the same problem
Help !! Please !!!

By: i3laze

i3laze — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:02:26 +0000

Man.. you have to publish this MSI somewhere.

I don’t wanna mess these two pages with AdvInstaller,even i got it installed both on home and office PC : )

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:08:35 +0000

Here is the last of the log file.

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By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:07:13 +0000

Sorry about posting the entire error log here. I don’t know another way to do this. Here is the next part of the error log. I have included the last two lines from the previous buffer cut off point.

[log snipped]

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:46:22 +0000

Thank you for getting back to me Nick. Here is my error log. The reason for the failure did not stand out to me.

[log snipped]

By: Nick Brown

Nick Brown — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:19:15 +0000

@Travis
Try creating a log file when installing like this:
msiexec /I setup.msi /l* c:\setup.log

Or, for more detail:
msiexec /I setup.msi /l*vx c:\setup.log

Take a look at the log for errors.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:58:53 +0000

Thank you for this informative and detailed post. I don’t quite have it working correctly yet though, and was wondering if someone has come across the same error message that I am getting when trying to run the setup.msi that is created from Advanced Installer builds. Before add the setup.msi to a group policy software installation package I decided to test the install by running the installer manually. The error message that I am getting is as follows:

“There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or a package vendor.”

I have run the installer on two separate machines with the same result. Also the user that I am running it under does have administrative rights to the machine.

Also, I have created the setup.msi with ORCA modifications twice to be sure that there wasn’t a typo. In both attempts I copied and pasted the ORCA modifications so that I wouldn’t have a typo.

Interestly, when I don’t include the ORCA customizations I am able to run the installer successfully (meaning no error message), however, the GPCSE update does not appear in the registry or in c:\windows\$NTUninstallK943729$ location.

If I can get this to work my life will be made much easier when we have to re-ip a large remote office next month.
Thanks,
Travis

By: brad

brad — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:46:41 +0000

wonderfully done!