Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

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Cheat Codes » Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code. — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:55:55 GMT

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re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Dennis Wallentin — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:48:14 GMT

Misha,

Thanks for the solution. When can we expect to have this issue fixed?

Kind regards,

Dennis

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Misha Shneerson — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:19:34 GMT

I just talked to the guys from the setup team and the issue will not be solved for Visual Studio 2005 - only for the next release codenamed "Orca". But please see Omar's blog (http://www.shahine.com/omar/VSTOAddinsAndVista.aspx) how to automate this workaround.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Dennis Wallentin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:14:13 GMT

Thanks Misha and I have already tested the suggestion workaround with good outcome :-)

Kind regards,

Dennis

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

yogesh gaur — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:01:00 GMT

This soultion works for me on vista - 32 bit. For some reason, this doesn't work for me on x64. Any insight?

regards,

Yogesh

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

ViniS — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:52:02 GMT

I'm trying to deploy a VSTO 2005 Outlook Add-In. My add in includes Custom Configuration Sections in the App.config file.

If I deploy my add in without the custom configuration section functionality it behaves as expected; however when the custom configuration section was included it stopped working. Any insight?

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Kljuka — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:21:28 GMT

Hello,

I have the same problem with already compiled comercial program SYNCING.NET but I'm not a developer so I can't fix it and I would really like to use it on my Vista. So is there a way for me to somehow install this product on my computer?

Thanks for the help!

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Jonas G. — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:12:51 GMT

The other way to deal with this problem for those who are not developers.

Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista. A number of ways to do this can be found at

http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

Then run the installer. If everything's OK, you should be able to install the application successfully.

Do not forget to enable User Account Control after you install the application (for security reasons).

I hope this will be useful.

Thank you, Misha, for the solution for developers.

Best regards,

Jonas

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Steffen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:03:48 GMT

Since I had the same problems, I combined the 2 scripts, Aaron and Misha proposed to 1.

For those, who are not developers and try to install an existing Msi, just run the script on the msi:

cscript <path to the script> <path to the msi>

Here is the script, most of it is taken from Aarons post of setting the NoImpersonate-Flag:

//prepare MSI-Files for use on Vista-Systems

//Visual Studio forgot to include 2 things:

// 1. Mark Custom Actions as NoImpersonate, otherwise an Security-Error results in Error 2869

// 2. User-Exceptions in CustomActions are not shown. Instead a plain Error 2869 without description occurs.

// Therefore Error-Message for this case has to be defined

// Constant values from Windows Installer

var msiOpenDatabaseModeTransact = 1;

var msiViewModifyInsert = 1;

var msiViewModifyUpdate = 2;

var msiViewModifyAssign = 3;

var msiViewModifyReplace = 4;

var msiViewModifyDelete = 6;

var msidbCustomActionTypeInScript = 0x00000400;

var msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate = 0x00000800;

if (WScript.Arguments.Length != 1)

{

WScript.StdErr.WriteLine(WScript.ScriptName + " file");

WScript.Quit(1);

}

var filespec = WScript.Arguments(0);

var installer = WScript.CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer");

var database = installer.OpenDatabase(filespec, msiOpenDatabaseModeTransact);

var sqlSelectCustomActions = "SELECT `Action`, `Type`, `Source`, `Target` FROM `CustomAction`";

var view

var record

var view2

var sqlInsertErrorMsg= "INSERT INTO `Error` (`Error`, `Message`) VALUES (1001, 'Error [1]: [2]')";

try

{

// 1. problem: CustomActions in Vista have to run with NoImpersonate

view = database.OpenView(sqlSelectCustomActions);

view.Execute();

record = view.Fetch();

while (record)

{

if (record.IntegerData(2) & msidbCustomActionTypeInScript)

{

record.IntegerData(2) = record.IntegerData(2) | msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate;

view.Modify(msiViewModifyReplace, record);

}

record = view.Fetch();

}

view.Close();

//2. problem: explicit format User-Errors, otherwise they are not visible in Vista, the User just sees Error 2869

view2=database.OpenView(sqlInsertErrorMsg);

view2.Execute();

view2.Close();

database.Commit();

}

catch(e)

{

WScript.StdErr.WriteLine(e);

WScript.Quit(1);

}

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Sameera — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:18:09 GMT

Thanks Steffen!

your script saved a lot work for me.

Error 2869 when trying to install the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion

Jose Aguilar's Blog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:22:41 GMT

A quick fix to help troubleshoot error 2869 when installing the VBUC 2.0.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Alexey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:44:21 GMT

very easy solution was posted on Paulo Reichert's Blog

http://blogs.conchango.com/pauloreichert/archive/2006/11/21/Windows-Installer-MSI-packages-error-code-2869-on-Windows-Vista.aspx

"...The quick and dirty solution I found to make them install is to create a batch file with the following command:

msiexec /i "path-to-package.msi"

Save the file then right-click it and select "Run as Administrator". That makes it work.

..."

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Gustavo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:01:38 GMT

Quick solution: Right click on "setup.exe" file and select "Run as Administrator".

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

starter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:02:08 GMT

>> Gustavo said:

>>Quick solution: Right click on "setup.exe" file and >>select "Run as Administrator".

may i know is this really work without using "msiexec"?

Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

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re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Error 2869 when trying to install the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

re: Windows Installer fails on Vista with 2869 error code.

Similar problem, but with Windows Server 2008