Windows Installer error 1719 while sequencing
I got this info from our internal forum and thought it was interesting enough to share with you.
When you are sequencing an application the Windows Installer service might give you an error during monitoring phase.
Error 1719. Windows Installer service could not be accessed. Contact your support personnel to verify that it is properly registered and enabled.
When the application is installed without the sequencer monitoring, the installation finishes without an error and the application works fine.
In this particular situation the sequencer was running Windows Server 2003 and was accessed remotely through a Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe).
The solution to this issue is create a console RDP session to the sequencer machine instead of an regular RDP session.
You can connect to a console session through the following command:
mstsc /console /v:<server>
Thanks to my colleagues for publishing and solving this issue!
update:
“mstsc /console” has been replaced with “mstsc /admin” on newer Windows Operating Systems (Windows 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 and up). So the correct syntax would then be:
mstsc /admin /v:<server>
Thanks Floris for pointing this out to me.