Thursday, October 16, 2008

vmware 2 install - system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation error

Whilst trying to upgrade my VMWare server 1.0 to the new 2.0 version, I ran into a fun error.



So I tried a few resolutions I had found on the web which led me to this patch:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336

Now granted, the title of that KB seems misleading but apparently it applies here too. Since VMWare made this big huge install file (500+ MB), you have to install this patch and reboot. Afterwards, the installer worked fine for me.
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM

    THis works fine, thx a lot;-)

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  2. AnonymousOctober 30, 2008 at 12:43 PM

    Worked for me too.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM

    I tried this solution and it worked for me.

    Thanks,
    Marcio

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  4. Milton MooreNovember 9, 2008 at 2:33 PM

    It worked! You are the Man! 8-)

    Thanks,
    Milton

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  5. AnonymousNovember 10, 2008 at 9:40 AM

    thanks!

    Admin Guy, London UK

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  6. AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM

    damn wtf was vmware thinking... thanks buddy worked for me

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  7. Jason PollDecember 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM

    Thanks, chalk me up as another that this worked for.

    Don't you love error messages that don't really indicate the real problem?

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  8. AnonymousDecember 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM

    that did the job

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  9. AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 5:21 PM

    worked for me as well

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  10. AnonymousJuly 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    Thank you very much! It works for WinXP x64 too and save my time.

    Peng,

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  11. compuiter techhAugust 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    thanks for the solution, the problem fixed.

    You are a great Techie

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  12. AnonymousOctober 14, 2010 at 4:30 AM

    Worked here also....WinServer2003 R2 and VMWare Server 2.0.2

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