I spent a large part of my day today building a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine with Visual Studio 2005 set up so that I could do some MOSS 2007 development on the road. During the set up process I went through my usual steps of installing Visual Studio 2005 followed by installing the monolithic Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. However this time around things did not go as expected.
Every time I ran the SP1 install it came up with the following error:
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite - ENU -- Error 1718.File C:\WINDOWS\Installer\4a1fef.msp did not pass the digital signature check. For more information about a possible resolution for this problem, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73863. |
Now since the dialog box did not contain a hyperlink, I did the usual moan and groan and tried again, ignoring the link in the text. Seems this was a stupid thing to do as, for once, the error message was actually almost useful. Clicking on the link takes you to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336 which tells you that all you need to do is install this hot-fix KB925336 for Windows Server 2003 and all will be well.
Sure enough, installing that did indeed fix the problem. Next time I will try the link first on the off-change it sends me somewhere helpful…