http://www.msigeek.com/257/interpreting-windows-installer-logs Microsoft Guides, Windows Blog and Tech Tips Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.msigeek.com/257/interpreting-windows-installer-logs/comment-page-1#comment-532 How to troubleshoot the error 1603 "Fatal Error During Installation"? Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:13:36 +0000 http://174.36.239.128/~msigeek/interpreting-windows-installer-logs/#comment-532 [...] 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/ [...] [...] 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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