Hello,

The installation of the team explorer client setup fails on most of our computers.

It always fails at the same stage: the installation of "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition".

The error code and message is: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation.

PS: this happen if we install this client alone. It doesn't happen if we install the client on top of Visual Studio. Unfortunately, our non developer users needs the client only.

Hi:

You should be seeing a log file generated on the PC's where the installation is failing. This will be in the logged-on user's temp directory (Start - Run - %temp% - Enter) with a name starting with Vsmsi. If you want to send the log to my profile email (remove nospam) I'll take a look.

Wendell

It seems we have found the issue. It looks like this was happening because we had extracted the Team Explorer client setup from the whole Team Foundation Server CD and published on one of network shares to simplify the setup for our users. If we ask peoples to run the autorun from the full CD and then select the Team Explorer link, then it doesn't crash anymore.

PS: the same issue was happening when using the standalone Team Explorer setup downloadable on the CodePlex site (http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/a/d/2ad44873-8ccb-4a1b-9c0d-23224b3ba34c/VSTFClient.img)