I have had to park my work on BizTalk 2006 while I assist another team at my current client on some BizTalk 2004 work. I was helping to install and configure some BizTalk groups and remembered just how much of a pain this can be and how much this has evolved in BizTalk 2006.
Anyway, I had an issue during the pre-installation of Visual Studio 2003 on a Windows 2003 SP1 server that took me some time to fathom out. Checking the error log highlighted the following errors in particular:
[03/13/06,10:57:24] Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Extensions Client: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code 1603 for this component means “Fatal error during installation.
[03/13/06,10:57:24] Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Extensions Client: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Setup Failed on component Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Extensions Client
[03/13/06,10:57:27] Setup Runtime Files: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code 1603 for this component means “Fatal error during installation.
[03/13/06,10:57:27] Setup Runtime Files: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Setup Failed on component Setup Runtime Files
[03/13/06,10:57:30] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code 1603 for this component means “Fatal error during installation.
[03/13/06,10:57:30] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Setup Failed on component Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1
[03/13/06,10:57:32] setup.exe: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Unable to open g_szRegkeyMSIntegration in CSetupManager::RemoveSetupFiles()
[03/13/06,10:57:32] setup.exe: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : CSetupManager::RemoveSetupFiles() failed in CSetupManager::RunInstall()
[03/13/06,10:57:32] VS70BaseUI: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : DepCheck indicates Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Extensions Client is not installed.
[03/13/06,10:57:32] VS70BaseUI: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : DepCheck indicates Setup Runtime Files is not installed.
[03/13/06,10:57:32] VS70BaseUI: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1 is not installed.
After some considerable amount of time researching what could be the root cause, I stumbled across the following KB article that led me to the answer http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327763
In my scenario the servers that I received had an incorrect mapping for the “My Documents” folder, which pointed to a network folder that did not exist. I changed this to point to a temporary folder located on the local machine and the installation continued successfully.
I hope this post may help save someone else time.