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Thanks for your suggestions jbaits. Since the two separate packages with different MSI codes for Adobe Air are working, I have no plans to combine them. I will keep in mind that I can add multiple uninstall actions with the failureaction to continue. I also created my first metadata only package so I can detect which…

I ending up find sleep executable online (http://www.sleepcmd.com/). I used the following code in post execution and it works. <program failureaction="stop"enabled="true"name="{14DC0059-00F1-4F62-BD1A-AB23CD51A95E}"type="msi"typeaction="uninstall"enablemsilogging="false"successcode="0"> </program> It turns out that we have…

How do you create a dummy exe that you reference? The test you did, was the uninstall in the pre or port execution? Once I have that, I will try a new package with the logging enable on the client and see what happens. Thanks for your suggestions.

The setup.exe does call multiple installers and some of them are called setup.exe. It’s possible while I watch Task Manager that the original setup.exe completes and another one starts with the same name. Do you have any suggestions for an installer like this? The only thing I can think of is to use a simple program called…

I am using Patch Manager 1.8 and tried that code in both the pre and post execution. When I try to install the package I get different errors and the package fails. The registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{14DC0059-00F1-4F62-BD1A-AB23CD51A95E} has UninstallString with a…

I believe this msi is ignoring the /norestart switch. I have seen this a couple time in the past. Using REBOOT=ReallySuppress switch seems to correct the problem with these msi so it doesn’t immediately reboot after completing the install.

After working with support (David Di Blasio) they found that my discovery task was very large. Viewing the Discovery Subnets and found several misconfigured subnets (e.g. /16 network (32,768 hosts) instead of /24 (256 hosts)). I ended up deleting the all the discovery tasks and discovery subnets and recreated them based…

The Setup.exe is signed by the manufacture and I can’t figure out why with installing from a network share it has so many problems (but not with local installs). For network installs under Windows 7/Vista there is an UAC prompt when dropping @ECHO OFF line and Windows XP just fails without any errors. Adding all the files…

I duplicated the package in question and then I was able to publish it. I don’t know what the problem was with the original package.

I do have the MSI code for Adobe Air, but I have tried numerous different options in Package Boot and it all fails. Can anyone get me a working example of using Package Boot to uninstall an application via its MSI code? Also, I will also need to figure something for JAVA 6 with its end of life by Oracle being February…

Thanks for the reply. Yes the Event Log entry included was for a package not from Solar Winds. It also occurred with the Java 7 update 45 packages from Solar Windows from last week. This Event Log entry was simply the most recent package for this problem to occur. For the Java packages and the one from yesterday (Google…

We did extensive testing and found no problems in our environment with these updates, but since Microsoft is strongly recommending everyone uninstall these updates (even if not experiencing problems) that is why I investigating our options. This option I found for Removal within WSUS appears to working. Below is a…

Starting the afternoon of Tuesday, December 10 (Patch Tuesday) things improved. About 10 of the affect computers started to download and install updates correctly from our internal WSUS server. About 5 others after installing one or more updates directly from Microsoft Updates (instead of WSUS) then they could work with…

Thanks. Let me clarify what I was seeing. Patch Manager seemed not to sync or get updated information from WSUS (including Last Report Time and what patches had been installed on all clients, which had been refreshing automatically from WSUS up until I rebooted both servers for Microsoft Updates). I rebooting both Patch…

This work around works until there is a bug fix from development.

I’ll share how I have been uninstalling QuickTime with Patch Manger. First, I created a custom report under Administration and Reporting > Reporting > Configuration Management Reports > Installed Programs and Features. Basically I use the report to determine the Product Guid for all versions of QuickTime installed in my…

I have a similar situation with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2015 (Classic) with a custom install via a custom AcroRead.msi and have no problems with the Adobe catalog for obtaining updates and patching. I would be shocked if this wouldn’t also work for Adobe Acrobat DC 2015 (Classic). The latest release by Adobe for Adobe…

I think the problem is with UAC. After have this package (using the network share) downloaded to a client that needs it, I edited the MatLab_R2013a_Win_Install.cmd file and dropped @ECHO OFF. I then opened up a command prompt to the location of the files (C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\Install) and then ran…

Thanks for the suggestions LGarin. I am unable to add <Domain_Name>\MACHINE$. Are you referring to each computer name, like computer1$ and computer2$? There is a single domain and I did add Everyone and Domain Computers with Read and Change share permission and Read & Execute for the NTFS permissions. I also did include…

From SoftwareDistribution.log on the WSUS server: 2013-07-26 22:46:53.550 UTC Error WsusService.8 WebServiceCommunicationHelper.VerifyServerCertificate The verification of the certificate chain failed. at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.WebServiceCommunicationHelper.VerifyServerCertificate(Object sender, X509Certificate…

Below is what I am attempting within WSUS: 1) Search for “KB2982791” update 2) Select all updates 3) Right-click and select Approve… 4) For All Computers, select Approve for Removal and then Apply to Children 5) Click the OK button 6) Click the Close button for the Approval Progress window NOTE: Some updates had results of…

Within the last month I discovered that Adobe created new catalogs to handle Acrobat Reader DC 2017 separately from Acrobat Reader DC 2015. Details and links can be found at www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/sccm.html.

We are finding this problem on more and more computers. Attached is the WSUS log from another affected computer. 2013-12-03 10:07:45:136 5476 12a8 Misc =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.6.7600.256, tz: -0800) =========== 2013-12-03 10:07:45:136 5476 12a8 Misc = Process: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe 2013-12-03…