Many Thanks. Sunday, July 31, AM. I'm seeing this as well, are the above work-around's still my only options? The only realistic one is setting the farm account as a local admin, which I'd rather not do. Tuesday, October 18, PM. Thursday, October 20, PM. I stubled across the fix above a couple of weeks ago and it didn't fix the problem for me.
However, glad to see someone else trying the same thing and avoiding making the farm account a local admin. There's clearly something else also required and I'm still searching. Friday, October 21, AM. I also have this issue. Best regards Thomas N. Wednesday, December 14, PM. Does anyone know of a safer solution to this issue? Tuesday, June 12, AM. Thursday, June 14, PM. Tuesday, June 19, AM.
I guess that's a fair point : I should have asked if anyone has come across a more permanent solution rather than a workaround you need to go through each time. Wednesday, June 20, AM. So, nobody has found the actual solution for this? Other than just temporarily putting the farm account into the local admins group? Wednesday, June 20, PM. Still no luck for me. Also gave the farm account the same just to see if that'd do anything. No luck.
The same approach doesn't seem to take care of the Product Version Job warnings, or at least I can't find the file location that causes the problem, if that is indeed the issue.
PaulE The problem is that the advice contradicts the advice that a lot of other qualified practitioners put forward. This isn't to say that it's wrong, but that the appeal to authority has at least equal validity when inverted. Thursday, June 21, PM. Apologies Paul, I'd missed that you were running with the manual approach.
I did read that long ago I've been following this thread for some time but lost track of it. Yeah, if I was administering a network I think I would go that way myself, absent a fix here. There are three things that are still interesting to me though: The job succeeds anyway.
Does it just continue to run the rest of its checks but fails on this one? If it doesn't fail on this one, why not? If it does fail here, but then continues, should we be concerned about the quality of the data in Manage Patch Status?
What I've never been able to reconcile with these warnings is that we've granted DCOM rights to launch and activate the Windows Installer Service and that definitely seems to make a difference to success or failure of the job - so why doesn't it clear these warnings?
Why does granting the file system permissions clear the FIM version of this job's warnings, but not for the Product Version Job? This is particularly vexing since granting the DCOM rights appears to resolve the errors in exactly the same manner for both jobs.
Friday, June 22, AM. You have to grant the rights in order to connect to the MSI Server. Error: 0x Nothing else is different. Friday, June 22, PM. No, it seems to always work right, admin rights or not. Out of curiosity, how are you testing that the job works? You know that PSConfig and the installer both seem to call in to Microsoft. UpdateProductInfoInDatabase as well? You can turn on MSI verbose logging and it will produce the same logs, with the exception of the above lines, regardless if you have Local Admin or not.
Thursday, August 2, PM. I also only add the Farm account to the Local Administrators group Where do I find the 'Local Administrators' group on a domain controller? Monday, August 6, PM. There is no concept of "local groups" on a DC. Instead, use the domain group named Administrators. Monday, January 7, AM.
Simon I verified further up the thread that this does not work for the particular error this thread is about. Monday, January 7, PM. Thursday, April 11, PM. Wednesday, April 24, PM. Thursday, April 25, PM. I'm no MVP, but I have a hard time imagining any of them would back this "solution.
Such as?? I'm still maintaining least-privilege by ensuring that the Farm account is not part of the local admin group and the Health analyzer is not barking about the Farm account being in the local admin group. The point is to ensure that the Product version job runs cleanly without DCOM or event viewer error's. Until Microsoft come up with a better solution Well, SP-Jim, think about it: If the Product Version Job can use the Farm account with local admin permissions, what's to keep other timer jobs from doing the same?
Thursday, May 2, PM. The method I proposed allows you to run the Product Version job without having to re-boot the server. I could never condone re-booting a production server just for the sake of running the PV job.
Friday, May 3, PM. Tuesday, May 7, PM. It is not just the timer service that needs to be restarted. Rather, you need to examine all services leveraging your farm admin account. This will complete the refresh of the user's group token.
Each Farm that I manage has it's own unique set of accounts that are configured the same way. I have since just disabled the Product Version Job as this only needs to run when Sharepoint updates are applied.
The process that I have described above will allow me to run this job when needed without having to re-boot which is critical in a production environment. Wednesday, May 8, PM. Hi Trevor, By "function correctly", you mean function without producing the event log errors?
Is my assumption correct? Thanks, Mario. Sunday, January 4, AM. There is another part of the job which updates what products are installed in the Config db, which does not require Local Administrator rights. Trevor Seward Follow or contact me at In addition, some users also say they receive the error message with different detailed information, such as Windows could not connect to the Group Policy Client service. Both situations are related to a Windows service failing to connect.
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Viewed 10k times. A client is getting this error in the log file when he tries to run my installer. Error: 0xE The installer works fine when I test it on my own machine. MSI c F8 []: Failed to connect to server. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Christopher Painter Christopher Painter I will get the client to try this. The better google search is "windows installer " another possible remedy is: support. Thanks again for your help. Your question was "What server is it trying to connect to?
I answered that. ChristopherPainter has misread my question.
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