How to install programs with "server-allergy"

[hackerman1]

Hi !

How to install programs with “server-allergy”

As most of us already have noticed, some programs don´t like to be installed on servers.
Here are the usual method for installing such programs.
I´m not taking credit for these tricks, it was written by others and the information is already available in the forum,
but unfortunately not easy to find.
I just put it together in this small guide.
And added my own version of the productfolder-trick….

APPLICATION VERIFIER

Download “Application Verifier” (be sure to download the amd64 version !):
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download … x?id=20028

Install and Launch Application Verifier
Select File > Add Application
Navigate to and select your program
Uncheck Basics
Expand Compatibility and check “HighVersionLie”
Right-click HighVersionLie and choose Properties
Set the following values:

WS2008-R2
Major Version: 6
Minor Version: 1
Build number: 7601
Product type: 1

WS2012
Major Version: 6
Minor Version: 2
Build number: 9200
Product type: 1

Leave everything else as default
Press OK to accept and click Save to approve changes
Close Application Verifier
Run your program

PRODUCTOPTIONS-FOLDER

Original version

Start –> Run –> Regedit
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SYSTEM –> CurrentControlset –> Control
Change the permissions of the folder “ProductOptions”
Add your user account (for example ComputernameUsername) and deny yourself the read rights for the whole folder.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO DENY THE WHOLE RIGHTS FOR ALL ADMINISTRATORS !

A safer and easier way

Create a new ADMIN-account
Name it fx. “INSTALLER”
Start –> Run –> Regedit
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> SYSTEM –> CurrentControlset –> Control
Change the permissions of the folder “ProductOptions”
Add your new account (INSTALLER) and deny it the read rights for the whole folder.
Login to your “INSTALLER-account” when you need to install programs.

This is safer because it will not mess up the settings for your ADMIN-account.
Which some people have done….
And you don´t have to change any settings back to the original,
since only the “INSTALLER-account” has modified rights to the folder.

Extracting setup-files from an installer-package

Some installer refuses to run on a server even when using the 2 tricks above, but you might be able to bypass this:

Use 7-zip
Locate and extract the setupfile you need
Run it
If this doesn´t work try the “Application Verifier” & ProductOptions-folder”-tricks with the extracted file.

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