Published: September 04, 2006
Category: Windows Installer >> Tips & Tricks | Personal Blog
Author: Aaron Stebner | Aaron Stebner's WebLog

Summary
In yet another of his blog posts, Aaron Stebner talks about solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to repair file and registry permissions. He emphasizes SubInACL tool being most useful when packages fail with error code 5 or 0x5 or 0x80070005. He elaborates such errors implies to Access Denied, and this type of error code is often caused by missing ACLs for the Administrators group or the built-in System account.

More Info
Windows Installer service mostly runs with System account permissions. If the System account does not have sufficient permissions to access the file system or parts of the registry, an MSI-based setup package will fail with an Access Denied error. Read Aaron's blog post for complete details for how to use SubInACL tool to solve such errors.

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About the Author
Aaron Stebner currently is a Program Manager on the Windows Media Center team at Microsoft and have been working at the company since August 1999. He worked as a tester on the Windows Embedded team and for 4.5 years on the setup team for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. He helped to ship Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1. [Source: Aaron's WebLog]