failed admin pak installation - w2k3

Hello

We are trying to install the Windows Servers 2003 SP1 admin pak on many of
our production servers and the installation fails with "Windows File
Protection " error.
I can install this software in our test enviornment without any problem.

I have done some searching and short of disabling this service, via
modifying the registry, the only answer that I can come up with is that the
operating system may contain some corrupt files.

Has anyone experienced this issue?
It does seem to be recoverable by loading the operating system CD when
prompted.

My concerns are as follows;

If the operating system is corrupt, should we wipe out the servers and
preform a clean installation? One of the suspect servers was going to become
a DC on our domain. This installation also fails on member servers.
I am not sure if repairing the operating system is a best practice? These
are production servers.
Is there any way to verify a clean installation of servers? We use a emplate
server image for building our servers and I am worried that we have
replciated a corrupt operating system to many machines. (We use virtual
server software, thus why we copy images of basic server builds. This is also
done in our test environment, which as I stated does not have any problems.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Mark Clark

I had a similar issue:

SMS was pushing out the adminpak but it failed on a few machines but
succeeded on others. I then tried installing manually via RDP and had
the same problem.

The installer needs to access files in the sp1 i386 directory. If you
use mstsc /console view you will see the popup asking for the windows
CD - whereas you wont see this via normal rdp session.

I then edited the registry to point to the correct location of the i386
directory (the original network location had changed) and it now works a
treat

reg keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
SourcePath
servicepacksourcepath


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