System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection installation error

[Chiefcrowe]

So I'm getting this error when trying to install this on a 2003 Server. I uninstalled Symantec, restarted and got the error below. I tried restarting and installing again and also making sure the Windows Installer service was started but the same result. Anyone have any ideas?!? This program usually installs with no problems...

System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection installation error

cannot complete the system center endpoint protection installation

An error has prevented the System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection setup wizard from completing successfully.
Please restart your computer and try again.

Error code: 0x80041014

 

[Iron Woode]

This looks to be your best answer.

For future reference, these are the steps required:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff406382.aspx#

The article above is written very frankly and is by the scripting guys. I was going to write my steps but I think that's not a good idea because your situation might be slightly different to mine.

Generally speaking it might require some combination of registering DLL files, EXE files, Repairing the WMI Repository and running MofComp command , but it depends on your windows server version amongst other things. The article lays it out well.

This issue happened to me when I tried to run SQL Server Configuration Manager. It just quits with the error about no permission to WMI or WMI not initializing.

It also prevents you from being able to update SQL server with hotfixes because they also try to connect to WMI to check you have the appropriate version installed.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you, i will try to do that at some point.