AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code 1603

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When I reinstall the AppFabric 1 1  Why I m getting this error  AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code   1603     I did run it with administrative rights   Below is the error log     2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup        Logging started  2012-06-26 18 20 07 08 00       2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  File              c  a0ddcd54d09ca070ef setup exe 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  InternalName      Setup exe 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  OriginalFilename  Setup exe 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  FileVersion       1 1 2106 32 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  FileDescription   Setup exe 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Product           Microsoft R  Windows R  Server AppFabric 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  ProductVersion    1 1 2106 32 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Debug             False 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Patched           False 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  PreRelease        False 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  PrivateBuild      False 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  SpecialBuild      False 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Language          Language Neutral 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup   2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  OS Name                    Windows 7 Ultimate 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  OS Edition                 Ultimate 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  OSVersion                  Microsoft Windows NT 6 1 7601 Service Pack 1 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  CurrentCulture             en-US 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Processor Architecture     x86 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Event Registration Source      AppFabric Setup 2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup   2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Upgrade V1UpgradeSetupModule   Initiating V1 0 Upgrade module  2012-06-26 18 20 07  Information           Setup  Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Upgrade V1UpgradeSetupModule   V1 0 is not installed  2012-06-26 18 20 33  Information           Setup  Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Upgrade V1UpgradeSetupModule   Initiating V1 Upgrade pre-install  2012-06-26 18 20 33  Information           Setup  Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Upgrade V1UpgradeSetupModule   V1 0 is not installed  not taking backup  2012-06-26 18 20 33  Information           Setup  Enumerating Windows features 2012-06-26 18 20 36  Information           Setup  Executing c  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe with commandline -iru  2012-06-26 18 20 46  Information           Setup  Return code from aspnet regiis exe is 0 2012-06-26 18 20 46  Information           Setup  Windows features successfully enabled  2012-06-26 18 20 46  Information           Setup  Process Start  C  Windows system32 msiexec exe  quiet  norestart  i  c  a0ddcd54d09ca070ef Packages AppFabric-1 1-for-Windows-Server-32 msi  ADDDEFAULT Worker WorkerAdmin CacheClient Setup  l vx  C  Users COMPUTER-Name AppData Local Temp AppServerSetup1 1 2012-06-26 18-20-46  log  LOGFILE  C  Users COMPUTER-Name AppData Local Temp AppServerSetup1 1 CustomActions 2012-06-26 18-20-46  log  INSTALLDIR  C  Program Files AppFabric 1 1 for Windows Server  LANGID en-US 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Process ExitCode  0x00000643 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Error                 Setup  AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code   1603 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Error                 Setup   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Error                 Setup  AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code   1603 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Error                 Setup   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Core SetupException  AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code   1603 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Installer WindowsInstallerProxy GenerateAndThrowSetupException Int32 exitCode  LogEventSource logEventSource  2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Installer WindowsInstallerProxy Invoke LogEventSource logEventSource  InstallMode installMode  String packageIdentity  List 1 updateList  List 1 customArguments  2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Installer MsiInstaller InstallSelectedFeatures   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Installer MsiInstaller Install   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Client SetupWorkflow StartActionPhase   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup     at Microsoft ApplicationServer Setup Client ProgressPage StartAction   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup      Summary of Actions     2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Required Windows components      Completed Successfully 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Microsoft  NET Framework 3 5 1               Completed Successfully 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Windows Communication Foundation Non-HTTP Activation             Completed Successfully 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  IIS Management Console               Completed Successfully 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  AppFabric 1 1 for Windows Server     Failed 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Hosting Services             Failed 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Cache Client             Failed 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Hosting Administration               Failed 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Microsoft Update     Skipped 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup  Microsoft Update             Skipped 2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup   2012-06-26 18 21 46  Information           Setup        Logging stopped  2012-06-26 18 21 46 08 00

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I ve also had a similar problem  The cause was AppFabric generated a scheduled task and it was left behind when it was uninstalled   the error message in the logs         create  tn   Microsoft Windows AppFabric Customer Experience   Improvement Program Consolidator   xml  C  Program Files AppFabric 1 1   for Windows Server Consolidator xml  Error  ERROR  Cannot create a   file when that file already exists     It can t create the Task because it already exists   To delete this task    Go to   SYSTEM32  Tasks Microsoft Windows   Delete the AppFabric Folder     Then try to re-install it again   Note  You could also try to delete it from the Task Scheduler GUI but in my case it wasn t shown there

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So   I was having the same issue   The main reason I am installing Appfabric is to create a SharePoint 2013 development server  What did not work   Updating the Environmental Variable PSModulePath - did not work   Still recieved the 1603 error after running the setup agian  tried to find the registry entries   Could not find them   What worked for me to get Appfrabic installed was installing from the setup file via powershell   Woo hoo   It worked for me  This is the link I retrieved the commands from  Installing AppFabric 1 1 with PowerShell DSC results in modal dialog error         Start-Process -FilePath  c  temp SharePoint pre appfabric setup exe  -ArgumentList   i cacheclient quot   quot cachingService quot   quot CacheAdmin  gac  l c  temp appfabric log  -Wait   Write-verbose         Start-Process -FilePath  c  temp SharePoint pre AppFabric1 1-RTM-KB2671763-x64-ENU exe  -ArgumentList   quiet  -Wait   Write-verbose  I hope this helps others with the same issue

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I fixed this error in my deployment   It only occured for me if I had run the installer once before   As soon as you start the Installer  it will create a temporary folder   Copy that folder and save it off with a different name   Now cancel that install   Open Regedit and search  CTRL F  for  AppFabric    You should find an entry under HKEY CLASSES ROOT Installer Products SomeStringOfCharacters    Under that check SourceList it will have a Key called LastUsedSource   Update the folder path within it to match the temporary folder we just saved off   Also check SourceList Net   It will likely have multiple keys with numeric Names   Make sure the Data value for them match your temporary folder path as well     Now go into your temporary folder and run Setup exe   It should complete now   I ve seen behavior like this with other installers that first extract files to a temporary folder   Re-running the installer mostly works from the new temporary folder but some aspect of it holds on to the old temporary folder in the registry and tries to load something up from the old location

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I had the same problem today  I ve found this link  where you can try 3 solutions  First solution helped for me   Microsoft ANSWER for this issue

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Although many links talk about deleting the trailing space in the environment variable  that did not apply to my case as there was no trailing space in my case   https   serverfault com a 593339 270420   This was the answer that finally helped me out  I had to delete the AS Observers and AS Administrators groups created during previous installation attempt and then reinstall    Doing this resolved the problem and I could successfully install AppFabric  Couldn t post this as answer in the server fault site due to insufficient reputation

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I had this same error  Just had to install IIS and everything worked

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May be I am really late for reply  Seriously guys this error resolution took hours of time  i tried every possible solution    installing IIS  changing Power Shell from environment variable  Deleting the local group   While  the solution is really really simple  If you look closely in  environment variable PSModulePath there will be commas at end of the value simply remove those and enjoy

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In my case it was a localgroup which was already existed through a previous install  Removing localgroup  AS Observers  resolved my issue   net localgroup AS Observers  delete  hope this might help someone

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My problem was that there was task already for Customer Experience Improvement Program in Task Scheduler   Microsoft Windows AppFabric Customer Experience Improvement Program Consolidator   I removed that task and after that installation succeeded

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I had a similar problem  9 21 2012 11 28 01 AM EXEPATH powershell exe PARAMS -command   str    System Environment   GetEnvironmentVariable   PSModulePath     System EnvironmentVariableTarget   Machine    str    str    c  Program Files AppFabric 1 1 for Windows Server PowershellModules    c  Windows system32 setx exe  M PSModulePath    str    LOGFILE C  Users XXXXXXX AppData Local Temp AppServerSetup1 1 CustomActions 2012-09-21 11-27-26  log Error  ERROR  Invalid syntax  Default option is not allowed more than  2  time s   Error  Type  SETX     for usage   My issue was the PSModulePath having an improper   in it  it was   C  Windows system32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 Modules  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SQL Server 110 Tools PowerShell Modules   removing the extraneous   corrected the issue  To change this go to Control Panel -  System -  Advanced System Settings -  On the Advanced Tab Select Enviroment Variables -  Under System Variables there is a Variable named PSModulePath  select it -  Click Edit -  Remove trailing

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I finally made it  I was able to install AppFabric for Win Server 2012 R2  I am not really sure what exact change made it worked  I saw and tried many many solutions from various websites but above solution of making changes to Registry -  HKEY CLASSES ROOT worked  please think twice before making changes to Registry on production environment - this was my demo environment so I just went ahead   I changed the temporary folder path but it did not worked first time   Then I deleted the registry entry and then uninstalled AppFabric 1 1 pre-installed instance from Control panel  Then I tried Installation and it worked  This also restored the Registry entry

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For me the following method worked  Firstly ensure that windows update service is running from services msc or you can run this command in an administrator Command Prompt -  net start wuauserv   Next edit the following registry from regedit -  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft InetStp -  MajorVersion -  Change this value from 10 to 9   Then try installing the AppFabric and it should work   Note  - revert back to registry value changes you made to ensure there are no problems in future if any

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Last but not least  I ve found this page  Is quite complete the cause and further explanation   SOLVED  Error 1306 AppFabric   Windows Server 2012

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I was trying to re-install AppFabric 1 1 on my Dev Computer running Windows 8 and I get this error  I found here that adding this     SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0      to PSModulePath  System properties -  Environment Variables -  System variables  solved my issue

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I also hit this error     The installation msi will try to create a new task in the Windows Task scheduler to remind you to give customer feedback  This install step executes regardless of whether you do or do not click the check box to participate in customer feedback  In many corporate environments  including mine  creating new windows tasks is denied to all but domain administrators  As a result  running as a local admin is not sufficient and the entire installation fails when adding the task returns    access denied     This shows up in the install log as a 1603   The only workaround we could find was to manually pull all the files out of the msi  remove the    add schedule task    from the install script  and then create a new msi  After that one line change  it worked fine

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In my case it was  - My system account contained two words -- Name and Surname  like  Vasya Pupkin   so web platform installer saw only first  Vasya   so you need to rename system user to  VasyaPupkin  without space symbol  or install under different account  - Also I ve noticed error in PowerShell env path  so check System variables PSModulePath  and remove unnecessary - symbol      SQL server path contains error   PowerShell Modules

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Looks like I got all the possible issues with that installation   Troubleshooting  look at actual log file  in the log provided by the installer look for LOGFILE        Process Start  C  Windows system32 msiexec exe  quiet  norestart  i  c  2964b29c3cd7dcb37c9e Packages AppFabric-1 1-for-Windows-Server-64 msi  ADDDEFAULT Worker WorkerAdmin CacheService CacheClient CacheAdmin Setup  l vx  c  Temp AppServerSetup1 1 2014-07-09 11-58-09  log  LOGFILE  c  Temp AppServerSetup1 1 CustomActions 2014-07-09 11-58-09  log  INSTALLDIR  C  Program Files AppFabric 1 1 for Windows Server  LANGID en-US   After you located the actual log file  check for errors  I had to    Fails to create AS Observer   Exec  c  Windows system32 net exe localgroup AS Observers  delete  Fails to set ACLs on config folder   Exec  md C  Windows SysWOW64 inetsrv config  COM not registered   Install activation service feature for  NET 3 5  both HTTP and non-HTTP  and enable HTTP activation for  NET 4 5    done  Hope that helps

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Thanks for all of the help   The log error actually tells you what to do  It is complaining because the file already exists below   Delete the  Consolidator  file from   C  Windows System32 Tasks Microsoft Windows AppFabric Customer Experience Improvement Program  Courtesy of Charles Babcock  MCT

[windows-installer] AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code : 1603

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