Windows Workstation Installation Failures: HTCondor

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Yanfei Li

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Jul 6, 2026, 11:54:44 AMJul 6
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Hello HTCondor Support Team,

I am trying to install HTCondor on a company-managed Windows workstation, but the Windows MSI installer fails(error in attached figures).

I first tried the Windows feature release installer, version `25.10.1`, and then tried the Windows LTS installer as well. Both failed with the same error, even when running the installer with administrator rights.

 

## Environment

| Workstation OS | Windows 11 Enterprise, 64-bit |

 

## Question

 

Could you advise whether this error is a known issue on managed Windows workstations?

 

Since both the feature release and LTS installer fail the same way, I am wondering if this may be related to endpoint security, group policy, AppLocker/WDAC, service creation, registry permissions, or MSI custom-action restrictions.

 

Are there any required security-policy exceptions or recommended MSI command-line options for installing HTCondor on company-managed Windows machines?

 

Thank you,

 

Yanfei

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Tim Theisen

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Jul 15, 2026, 11:54:03 AM (8 days ago) Jul 15
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Hello Yanfei,

The most likely cause is that the C++ runtime libraries are not available.

Please install them before installing HTCondor.

   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#latest-supported-redistributable-version

...Tim

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