I ran into an installation error this afternoon with VMware Server 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 R2. It was a dialog box that popped up and said “The System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation“. The error prevents the installation from proceeding and offers only one course of action which is to click “Ok” and the installation terminates.
The workaround is as follows:
- Click Start
- Click Run
- gpedit.msc <enter>
- Drill down to Computer configuration
- Windows Settings
- Security Settings
- Software Restriction Policies
- Security Settings
- Windows Settings
- Right click Software Restriction Policies
- Choose Create New Policies
- On the right hand side, right click Enforcement
- Choose Properties
- Down below, choose All users except local administrators
- Click OK
- Close Group Policy
- Open a Command Prompt
- Run the command gpupdate /force <enter>
- When local group policy is finished updating, re-run the VMware Server 2.0 setup
You are the master!! i just spent 2 hours trying to fix this… Thanks!
THis worked a treat and is now installed on SBS.
Thanks!!
Carl
Good tip[, well documented on the VMWARE website.
http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/vmware_server/releasenotes_vmserver2.html
Scroll down past most to area about event logs and memory issues.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/exchangesvrdeploy/thread/f290d33a-f492-4546-b020-9fcd36217225/