Unable to install Windows Installer 4.5 on Windows Server 2008
- by Tim Trout
One of the prerequisites for installing SQL Server 2008 Express R2 is Windows Installer 4.5. I have a couple of WS2008 machines I'm prepping, so I downloaded the appropriate version of the file (Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu) to our file server and tried isntalling it on both machines.
On both machines I get the cryptic 0x80070003 error: "the…