Removing Old Versions Deployment Mad Scientist. For the last few weeks, weve been building application packages to serve as prerequisites for Office 2. This Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package Hatasд±' title='This Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package Hatasд±' />Today, well tackle one last preparatory issue before actually constructing the Office 2. Application in Configuration Manager. As well see next week, Office 2. One of these options instructs the Office Setup program to uninstall previous versions of Office before beginning the installation process. This is great because having multiple versions of Office installed just doesnt work in several combinations, and in others, it is supported but not recommended. 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UploadFile/1492b1/21649/Images/MSI43.jpg' alt='Installshield This Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package' title='Installshield This Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package' />Share. Point Designer 2. Also, if the existing installation is damaged in some way, it may not be able to be uninstalled reliably. Therefore, if we want a clean upgrade experience for existing installations, we have to find another method to remove previous versions of Office. The Office Deployment Support Team Blog provides the answer. In the post, How to uninstall Office 2. Office 2. 01. 3 Click to Run or Volume License, the author writes Utilizing Offscrub is the best method of removing a previous version of Office. It will call setup. MSIExec to remove the bits. It is best equipped to deal with machine or software corruption and completely removes Office app shortcuts for the previous version. We recommend using Offscrub in almost every situation of moving from Office 2. Office 2. 01. 3. What is this Off. Scrub program Off. Scrub is the underlying VBScript program that runs when you download and run a Microsoft Fix. It program to remove Office. Were going to follow the Office Deployment Support Blogs suggestion and use this technology to reliably remove all previous versions of Office back to Office 2. Office 2. 01. 6. Lets get started. Acquiring the Script Files. I am going to walk through all of the steps below, but you may want to take a moment to go read How to obtain and use Offscrub to automate the uninstallation of Office products from the Office Deployment Support Blog. That is a major source for this post. Download the Fix. It Programs. Let me save you some time. I downloaded seven separate Fix. Flash Player Plugin Firefox High Cpu Usage. It files for various versions of Office and Windows. For each version of Office, one package is available for Windows 7 and lower, and another package is available for Windows 8 and higher. It turns out that the Off. 4 Square Saltine Crackers more. Scrub. vbs file is the same in both packages. There is one exception The Windows 7 Offscrub. Roshan nayak October 3, 2015 at 213 pm. After extracting Citrix Online Plugin using 7zip, i tried to point the path where icawebwrapper. But when i. Office 2. Windows 8 version. Therefore, you will only have to download four Fix. It files. Well use the Windows 8 versions because they are easier to extract and dont have the bug mentioned above. Browse to the Microsoft Support article, How to uninstall Office 2. Office 2. 00. 7 or Office 2. Control Panel. Download each of the Fix. Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package' title='Installation Cannot Be Run By Directly Launching The Msi Package' />It programs available on that page for Windows 8. Save them in folders named for the year of the Office version followed by a hyphen and the applicable OS platforms. Win. 82. 00. 7 Win. Win. 8Note There is a Fix. It listed separately for Office 2. Windows 1. 0 in the Office Support article, Uninstall or remove Office 2. As with the Windows 7 version, this Fix. It is the same as the one listed here for Windows 8. Browse to Uninstall Office 2. Office 2. 01. 6, or Office 3. Windows computer. Download the easy fix tool into a folder named 2. O3. 65 Win. I wanted to show you where all of the files came from, but for reference, here are direct links to all of them Based on the fact that the Office 2. Fix. It files are the same for Windows 1. Windows versions, I am going to assume that the same is true for Office 2. Extract the Off. Scrub Scripts. Now we must depart a bit from our instructions, which predate the release of Windows 8. The Fix. It programs we downloaded are packaged in DIAGCAB files. DIAGCAB files work with the Windows Troubleshooting Platform, but architecturally, they are just CAB files, so we can extract their contents with the expand command. On your application staging file share wherever you put application source files for Configuration Manager to find, create a folder structure for the Off. Scrub scripts. Mine will be fileserversoftwareMicrosoftOff. Scrub with a subfolder for each Office version. Make the appropriate changes for your environment in the commands below, and then run them. Change the path to match the parent of all of the folders created earlier. This can also be a network path, like servershareOff. Scrub. Downloads. OFFSCRUBSOURCEE Off. Scrub. Downloads. OFC2. 00. 3WIN8OFFSCRUBSOURCE2. Win. 8. set OFC2. WIN8OFFSCRUBSOURCE2. Win. 8. set OFC2. WIN8OFFSCRUBSOURCE2. Win. 8. set OFC2. OFFSCRUBSOURCE2. O3. Win. rem Change the path to match your Configuration Manager application source location. OFFSCRUBDESTINATIONfileserversoftwareMicrosoftOff. Scrub. md OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATIONC2. R. rem Use the EXPAND command to extract the Off. Scrub files f from the DIAGCAB files, which are really just CAB files with specialized contents, and disregard internal folder structure i. OFC2. 00. 3WIN8Microsoft. Fixit. 20. 05. 4. Off. Scrub vbs OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFC2. 00. 7WIN8Microsoft. Fixit. 20. 05. 2. Off. Scrub vbs OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFC2. 01. 0WIN8Microsoft. Fixit. 20. 05. 5. Off. Scrub vbs OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFC2. 01. 32. 01. O1. 5CTRRemove. diagcab f Off. Scrub vbs OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. Off. ScrubO1. 6msi. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. OFFSCRUBDESTINATION2. Off. Scrubc. 2r. vbs OFFSCRUBDESTINATIONC2. RThe expand commands above extract just the VBS files that we need from the DIAGCAB files. Update from 2. 01. Subsequent to this blog posts initial publication, testing showed that while all of the extracted scripts work correctly when run manually, they fail on 6. Windows when run from inside a Configuration Manager Package. It turns out that even in Configuration Manager v. Windows. That means that calls to cscript. Windows will use the Sys. WOW6. 4 version of cscript. This prevents the scripts from adequately searching through the entire system and effectively removing Office programs. I added the following section to deal with this issue. Overriding the File System Redirector. In order to work properly, the Offscrub scripts must all run in the native bitness of the platform. On 6. 4 bit Windows, that means we must directly call the native cscript. Configuration Manager Package. In order to keep the package programs platform neutral, I wrote a small script to use in place of cscript. I am indebted to Andrew Lukaszewski, whose generic script to overcome this issue inspired the more specific script below. Copy the following into a plain ANSI text file and save it as CScript. Native. cmd in the root of the Offscrub folder structure. Mine is fileserversoftwareMicrosoftOff. ScrubCScript. Native. CScript. Native. cmd. Author Jay Michaud www. Date 2. 01. 6 0. Source http www. Acknowledgement Inspired by Andrew Lukaszewskis blog at https madluka. IT That Should Just Work SOLVED Cisco VPN Client on Windows 1. Including the new build 1. Fall Creators UpdateUpdated 1. Fall Creators UpdatePlease see my edits below for notes on build 1. Heres how to get it working in 2 easy steps 1. Download and install the Sonicwall 6. VPN client from HERE as of this writing. Install the Cisco VPN client. Edit  If you get an error that it cannot run on this operating system then just extract the. Win. Rar or a similar program and run the. Problem solved. 3. Perform a quick registry edit This step is almost always not optional any longerOpen Regedit. Browse to the registry key HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetServicesCVirt. ASelect the display name to modify x. CVirt. ADesc Cisco Systems VPN Adapter to Cisco Systems VPN Adapterx. CVirt. ADesc Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 6. Windows to Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 6. WindowsReboot. The first two steps worked for me without the need for registry edit. I checked and the settings were already spelled correctly on my machine. Full disclosure my systems are clean Windows 1. Without installing the Sonicwall client first you will get Error 4. Checking the logs shows that it cannot download the key to complete the secure connection. What happens is that the Sonicwall client adds the DNE Lightweight filter network client on the machine. I tried getting it directly from Citrix and installing it that way but was unsuccessful. Using this method you can now get some more use out of the Cisco VPN client. If you prefer you can uninstall the Sonicwall client afterward. Ive been told by several people that the DNE software remains even after the Sonicwall client is removed. Build 1. 70. 9 Fall Creators Update. WARNING  You should uninstall the Cisco VPN client prior to running this upgrade so repairing it afterward will make it much easier. All of the steps above still work on this latest Fall Creators Update upgrade of Windows 1. Build 1. 70. 3 Creators Update EDIT Updated 0. WARNING  You should uninstall the Cisco VPN client prior to running this upgrade so repairing it afterward will make it much easier. All of the steps above still work on this latest Creators Build upgrade of Windows 1. Now for the not so fun details. I didnt uninstall prior to the upgrade and proceeded to spend the next 3. I finally found the right one to let me reinstall the product using the. MSI file.  After doing that, and making the registry edit, my VPN client is again working properly. Version 1. 60. 7 Build 1. EDIT Updated 0. 80. All of the steps above still work on this latest Anniversary build of Windows 1. As with the 1. 51. Microsoft yet again determined that they would control which program we use. You can go HERE to download the latest version of the media downloader and get version 1. And not to be left out HERE is a link to all of the new features in 1. IT pros. As I update my Windows 1. Ill post updates if there are any issues or errors I run across with this build. As I always say. BUILD 1. EDIT Updated 12. Im getting a lot of feedback about networking being broken after 1. I would highly advise you remove the Cisco VPN client and Sonic Global client software prior to installing build 1. I have now upgraded three different systems to 1. By removing both the Sonicwall and Cisco VPN software first, I had zero issues with it working properly afterward. However, if the upgrade went through already, heres what you can do to help mitigate these issues. Theres no guarantee this is going to work but I have had two instances where the Cisco VPN software was removed by the 1. I was able to get it working by following the next steps below First just reinstall the VPN client using the. MSI file and not the. EXE file.  This will bypass Windows 1. I listed at the top. Next just make the registry edits again and youll be good to go. After the registry edits, I have not had to restart but you can if you feel the need just to be sure. If this does not work as an extra effort you will need to reset all networking on Windows 1. Luckily this is pretty easy to do. Open an administrator command prompt Run netcfg d Reboot and reconfigure your networking as needed. Heres a sample of the output you will see Microsoft Windows Version 1. Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C WINDOWSsystem. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Setup. Di. Call. Class. Installer Erorr 0x. Net. Setup object deleted successfully on MUXSuccessfully commited changes to the registry. Successfully commited changes to the registry. We are going to reboot now to complete the clean up. Save all of your work. Press any key to continueI hope this helps out with the additional headaches caused by 1. As always if I find any more useful information with future updates to Windows 1. Ill be sure to update the post.