unable to extract deployment information from the package

[ChrisH]

Grr arrrg not to mention grrr .............. Anyway after rebuilding the file server yesterday and unsucessfully getting an alias to redirect to the original computer name I have started to do some minimal install GPOs . The only problem is that when I try and add a package to the current or a new GPO it says

unable to extract deployment information from the package

Please validate package etc etc. I have tried it from several different servers. I have tried several different packages and I have checked permissions on the share and all seems to be fine. I can manually run packages no problem. I have done the usual googling and ther doesnt seem to be anything that helps.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Chris

[ajbritton]

It's saying this for ALL MSI packages? Anything else in the event logs?

[ChrisH]

Ive sorted it. It seems to be related to the installer service on my servers for some reason. I added them from my workstation and they worked fine :?

[Geoff]

Clean out your temporary files.

[ChrisH]

There is nothing in the temp directories. I looked in them all.

[tarquel]

Have you got the latest ver of Windows Installer....um.....installed?

Nath.

[ChrisH]

I tried installing it and it said it was already the latest version.