An Error 1601 or 1719 May Occur After Installing the MSI 3.1 Engine with InstallScript MSI Projects

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When attempting to install the MSI 3.1 engine on a target machine, InstallScript MSI projects may fail with an error 1601 or 1719 indicating that the Windows Installer Service is unavailable at the time the installation is launched.

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This occurs as a result of a timing issue where the Windows Installer engine is not ready when the InstallScript engine attempts to access it.

Workaround

As a workaround to this issue, do not supress the Windows Installer 3.1 engine reboot when using the InstallScript MSI project type.

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Case id: 00001065