Windows – Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64 Installation error

With some help from a managed MSDN forum and some luck I got this installed. Some of the steps I took made no sense but I thought I should document this for others.

I extracted the Prerequisites installer by running \wcu\64bitPrereq\vs_bsln.exe using the /C switch then ran the installer with logging using this command from an Administrator Command Prompt:

msiexec /package vs_bsln.msi /log <filename>

This gave me a different error message:

MSI (s) (C4:D4) [09:14:54:489]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit
Prerequisites (x64) - ENU -- Error 1945.You do not have sufficient privileges
to complete the re-advertisement of this product. Re-advertisement requires
initiation by a local system account calling the MsiAdvertiseScript API, such
as through Group Policy Software Deployment.

The rest does not really make sense to me but I repeated that above command logged in as a domain Administrator rather than a local Administrator and the Prerequisites installed!

So I tried installing Visual Studio again and it did not attempt to install the prerequisites but failed with the same message on the next component (Document Explorer, as I recall). I tried launching \vs\setup.exe as Administrator and it worked.

UPDATE 10/21/09: This problem may have been related to running the install from a shared DVD drive on another computer. If you encounter a problem like this and you are running the install over a network, trying copying the install locally.

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