

How I came to this conclusion: after trying many different things to solve the "preparation package failed" problem, I decided to uninstall Visual Studio 2012. I think the installer/updater is failing with "Preparation package failed"īecause it is trying to open a file called Preparation.exe at a nonexistent path. I'm not really sure what problems not having the Microsoft Visual Studio Preparation Package would cause (I didn't notice any problems), but it gives me piece of mind to know that it finally got installed.
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So it looks like the solution was to do the VS 2012 Update 2 install/repair as a local admin on the PC, rather than a domain admin.
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But I'm not too concerned about this error since I'm confident it would go away if I uninstalled Microsoft Web Deploy 3.0 from Add / Remove Programs and tried to install it again. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel."

Installation of this version cannot continue. However, I still got the "Microsoft Web Deploy 3.0 Another version of this product is already installed. This time I did not receive the "Microsoft Visual Studio Preparation Package failed." I only had a domain admin on my laptop (since it is my work laptop), so I created a local admin user, logged on as it, and then ran the VS 2012 Update 2 Repair again. "Try to reapply the update, from a Local admin account (not domain admin)."

It shows me the last page of the wizard that says "Completed the Microsoft Web Deploy 3.0 Setup Wizard", and I click the Finish button. I did this and it seems to run and complete in about half a second. \packages\WebDeploy location and run this command: "After this open an administrative CMD window, go to the extracted update setup, navigate to the. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel. When I double click on the WebDeploy_圆4.msi I just get this window:Īnother version of this product is already installed. "Under the setup for VS2012, navigate to packages\WebDeploy and repair the component using the msi file for your machines architecture. If it fails again, please upload the latest logs corresponding for:ĭd_vsupdate_KB2707250_20130423102613_48_Preparation.log Try to reapply the update, from a Local admin account (not domain admin). Under the setup for VS2012, navigate to packages\WebDeploy and repair the component using the msi file for your machines architecture.Īfter this open an administrative CMD window, go to the extracted update setup, navigate to the. This tells us that it is unable to replace the existing installation package. : Error 0x80070666: Failed to configure per-machine MSI package. : Error 0x80070666: Failed to execute MSI package. : Error 0x80070666: Failed to run maintanance mode for MSI package.

SKIPVISTASP1CHECK="1" SKIPFX20SP1CHECK="1"' : Applying execute package: webdeploy_圆4_en_usmsi_902, action: Repair, path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\v3.1236.1631\packages\WebDeploy\WebDeploy_圆4.msi, arguments: ' MSIFASTINSTALL="7"
