Understand the Windows Installer Logs

May 9, 2008

Here’s a fantastic document by Richard on “how to interpret Windows Installer logs”. This is a very essential and a noteworthy bookmark for every packager and administrator. Especially, Don’t miss the Annotated Verbose Installer Log section; it has a pdf file, which contains a log file generated on Vista.

Special Thanks to Richard Mc Donald for this wonderful Document!

Click here to Download the Annotated Verbose Log

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http://www.msigeek.com/how-to-troubleshoot-the-error-1603-fatal-error-during-installation/ How to troubleshoot the error 1603 “Fatal Error During Installation”?

[...] One can find that the biggest hurdle to debugging a failed setup is often zeroing in on which part of the setup is actually failing, and this trick of searching for “return value 3″ ends up helping speed this process up in nearly all cases. Of course, it does not work in 100% of scenarios. You can find some ways of troubleshooting the logs here - http://www.msigeek.com/identifying-installation-failure-through-cas-using-msi-logs/ http://www.msigeek.com/interpreting-windows-installer-logs/ [...]

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