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May 7, 2009 7:15 AM by
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* Distributed Transaction Coordinator. (usually a culprit for installation failures that i have found anyway...)
* COM+ System Application.
* COM+ System Application.
Neither of which affect Windows Installer service, because those services are not even running..... Windows installer errors are mostly caused by temp files from previous installations, that interfere with current installations. Cleaning out the temp in many cases, or change the temp location can fix it.
1722 is a generic error it happens on any Windows installer, not just VM Ware tools, so it's something else at the OS level, it could be memory problems, or swap / disk space free, corrupt data, lots of things. But the above services are not related.
I Start those services and then and only then could I install VMware tools. Another example, you can not install SQL unless Distributed Transaction Coordinator is enabled and running...
That's called 'dependencies'.. Service A needs service B which needs Service C running. Since service C isn't running, at the time service B starts, it starts. A starts, and sees that B is now running because C is now started.But C does not depend on B or A to run, hence your scenario. It was a trigger to start a chain of events. But SQL server needs neither to run, as I said, neither of these are running, both manually started, but neither start at the time MSI runs.
What does Distributed Transaction Coordinator do?
The Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) service coordinates transactions that update two or more transaction-protected resources, such as databases, message queues, files systems, and so on. These transaction-protected resources may be on a single computer or distributed across many networked computers.
You might need it to RUN SQL, but not install MSI installations.
