Fixing: The administrator has set policies to prevent this installation
Apparently having a corrupted installer metabase can raise havoc with installing Microsoft software. This example relates to my attempt today to install my new laptop with all the relevant development tools to do my job, particularly MSXML6, and SQL Server 2005 management tools and references. However, the install continuously failed with the following error message, “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation”. Apparently, event though I’m a local administrator, I don’t have permissions to install this particular software. Funny, I swore I was a local administrator. Nonetheless, I spend an hour or so disabling antivirus, firewalls, and even logging in safe mode, to no avail.
So the fix to bypass this error, download and install the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility and remove all instances of the failed install attempts of MSXML and SQL Server components.
Viola, problem solved.
Tags: Installation, Microsoft, SQL Server 2005, Support
August 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Sorry, I guess I should have blogged about this or sent out a department email because I had the exact same issue last week when I was setting up my new laptop. Wasted a couple of hours figuring out the problem.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I really didn’t spend too much time on it. But it was a pain, as usual. Perhaps I should add this to the DevWiki…hmmm.