Application deployment - 1603 error

[Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife]

I’m trying to deploy an application, which runs an .msi file, with a transforms.  I’ve deployed it to 20 machines.  16 are fine, and 4 give me this 1603, fatal error.  I know 1603 is a very generic error code.  I’ve found a couple of articles about it, but going through the troubleshooting, I am not able to find what’s actually happening.  The appenforce.log is not helpful. It shows that it is about to run the command, then 2 seconds later, pops the error.

 

Anyone have other spots to look for answers?

 

Joe Heaton

Managed Services and Operational Support Unit

Information Technology Operations Branch

Data and Technology Division

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[Solodow, Damien]

Is there an MSI*.log in c:\windows\temp with the right timestamp?

Otherwise you may need to amend your command line for the deployment to include a logfile and see what that tells you.

 

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[Michael B. Smith]

Double-plus agree.

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[CESAR. A]

++ on Logging, it will display more of why the MSI is failing 

Past experience, that error code most of the time comes down to WMI issues. I don't work on SCCM anymore but over the years I built a health script that did all of rebuild WMI, clear user crypto, refreshing GPO files, and reinstall the client. I'll try to find it. 

Cesar A

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[Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife]

There was, thanks for pointing to it.  So, it looks like all the ones that have failed are all the same version and build.  Apparently, the installer has a problem with it.  That log stated that a newer version was already installed, even though it is absolutely an older version.  I’m working on getting that build, so I can play around with the installer, and see if I can work around it.

 

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