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IIS7 Web Setup/Install & Error Status 1603

Nov 20

Written by: Ben Noyce
11/20/2008 8:58 AM 

So, its been a while since I have had the opportunity to blog, but this one was obscure enough that I had to share a little bit of 'know'.  Recently I built a staging environment for my company to be able to push our applications through typical deployment 'tiers', and decided that Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 would be a jolly challenge for the web environment.  So, off I went installing the minimum amount of information needed in order to deploy our compiled web setup MSIs.

The time came to install the MSI for the web solution, and the setup simply died with the message 'The installer was interrupted before <product> could be installed.  You need to restart the installer to try again'.  Like a good little instruction follower, I did, to the same result.  Upon inspecting the application log files, this knowledge packed message gets displayed:

Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: <product>. Product Version: <version>. Product Language: 1033. Installation success or error status: 1603.

Long nights and story short, in order to install a web setup project on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, you need to install the IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility role service.

I hope this serves you as well as it served me.

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55 comment(s) so far...

Re: IIS7 Web Setup/Install & Error Status 1603

Thanks Ben, without this post, I would have been looking for a long long time

By Jeff on   2/20/2009 3:57 PM

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Great thanks man! I had the same problem, and you saved me hours of exploring in annoying IIS inners!

By Astraloff on   7/23/2009 1:29 PM

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You are brilliant Ben, you have made my day.

Thank you Very much and i will never forget your blog...
You saved my time....

By Vijay Kerala varma on   8/18/2009 1:38 PM

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You rock. Thanks for the time saver.

By spender on   8/18/2009 1:39 PM

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Nice. This was exactly what i was looking for. Strange that Microsoft doesn't offer a decent hint for this.
Anyway. Thanks a lot.

By Marvin on   8/18/2009 1:38 PM

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Awesome Ben. You are bang on target.

By srini on   8/18/2009 1:38 PM

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Same story here - complete confusion, no help from MS.

Thanks - now it works!

By Oskar Austegard on   8/25/2009 6:15 AM

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Great soution!
Thanks - now it works!

By catalin on   8/28/2009 1:55 PM

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Thanks, Ben, you are a lifesaver! This completely resolved our issues! Many thanks!

By Steve on   10/28/2009 7:36 PM

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Thanks Ben,
I had the same problem, now it works.

By Dimo Dimov on   10/28/2009 7:36 PM

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Thanks Ben :)

By Steve Yoon on   11/18/2009 3:29 PM

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Thanks very much for that Ben, you've saved me from trawling the net on a friday night when I should be in the pub!

By Ian on   11/18/2009 3:30 PM

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Ineed, a good tip. Thanks

By victor on   11/18/2009 3:30 PM

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Helped a lot! Thanks!

By Jane on   1/29/2010 10:25 PM

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Thanks for posting this; I googled IIS 7 1603 and this page was the first result. Solved my issue immediately.

By Ken on   2/26/2010 1:57 PM

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Many thanks. Solved my problem in minutes rather than days.

By mattd on   5/12/2010 7:52 PM

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Thanks alot...this saved me alot of time

By Ritesh on   5/12/2010 7:52 PM

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Thanks Ben, you rule!

By NewMount on   5/12/2010 7:52 PM

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Thanks indeed

By SZ on   5/12/2010 7:52 PM

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Thanks Ben,

new to this and spent 2 days trying to fix problem! you helped me fix it in 2 minutes.
Keep blogging. I may need your help again!

By Melissa on   5/22/2010 8:30 AM

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Thanx alot for sharing this:.

By Shahan on   8/12/2010 11:56 AM

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Thanks!

By GA on   8/12/2010 11:56 AM

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Awesome tip. Thanks Ben!

By Alex on   8/12/2010 11:56 AM

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I send you a virtual beer. Enjoy!

By Mikael Sandberg on   8/12/2010 11:56 AM

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Thanks i have same problem about 1603 in windows 7

By Sanjay on   8/26/2010 2:57 PM

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Thanks man, it's working fine.

By Rama Srinu on   9/8/2010 4:37 PM

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Thanks. You have saved me and others where I work many hours of troubleshooting

By Carl on   9/23/2010 9:41 AM

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Awsome!!!!! Exactly the solution I needed... How do you guys get it right all the time!

By TheCleaner on   9/30/2010 1:06 PM

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Thanks a lot. Saved me lots of hours trobleshooting

By Andrew on   10/9/2010 12:39 AM

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WOW! Worked perfectly! Saved me a lot of time. Cheers!

By James on   10/26/2010 9:56 AM

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Unfortunately, I was looking for quite some time but this definitely worked. Thanks so much!

By Adam F Dot on   11/13/2010 2:07 PM

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Thank man! that is really helpful. So much troubles from MS..

By Evgeny on   11/13/2010 2:07 PM

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Thanks it's a good solution :D

By Andres on   12/10/2010 9:44 PM

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Thanks a lot for sharing this. It saved my day:-)

By Ann-Catrin Hagberg on   12/10/2010 9:44 PM

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Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

By Dag-Ole Nervik on   1/10/2011 2:23 PM

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wasted 2 days before found this post - saved some additional hours

By wezikas on   1/10/2011 2:23 PM

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Unbelievably valuable help. Could have costed me days finding this independenty.

Microsoft, please do something about this. One of the most opaque issues i've recently encountered.

By Rcc on   2/28/2011 10:49 PM

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Superb mate!

By stek on   4/15/2011 8:37 PM

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Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you! Saved my life!

By pinky on   4/15/2011 8:38 PM

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Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)))))))))

By oldkrot on   5/28/2011 7:14 PM

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Thank Ben!!!
After of one week, your article saved me!!!

Como decimos en Perú... te pasaste!!! ;D

kind regards!!!!

By Wilder Carreño on   5/28/2011 7:14 PM

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THANK YOU!!!! YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Bruno on   5/28/2011 7:14 PM

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Thanks a lot!!!

By Guruprasad on   5/28/2011 7:14 PM

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Thanks Ben, it was a hard to find solution without this helpful blog.

By Zia Ul Haq Soofi on   5/28/2011 7:14 PM

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Gracias por el post eso soluciono el error :)

By Paty Samaniego on   7/29/2011 8:24 AM

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Hey thanks Ben! Great Help!

By EZE on   7/29/2011 8:24 AM

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Thanks.

By Mykola on   8/18/2011 8:51 AM

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Thanks. То что доктор прописал.

By NickSoft on   9/11/2011 12:52 PM

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Thanks alot Ben.

By Dr.Logical on   9/26/2011 5:46 AM

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Super Awesome! Perfect post to save time and frustration!

By Andy on   9/26/2011 5:46 AM

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Thanks very much! I thought I was going mad! You saved me a lot of time and from looking like an idiot!

By phil on   11/22/2011 12:16 PM

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THANKS!! Finally solved my problem after useless other solutions!! THANKS!!!

By mo on   11/22/2011 12:17 PM

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Fantastic. From Spain.
Carlos & Julián.
Developer .NET. & Administrartor network.

By YokiXml on   1/10/2012 12:55 PM

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Thanks, big time saver.

By larry foulkrod on   1/10/2012 12:55 PM

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Thank you so much :)

By Jyothi on   1/10/2012 12:55 PM

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