Error regarding "Another installation is in progress".

[guest]

After a successful install of Windows Home Server 2011 RC, everything is updated and I'm feeling good about things. I go to my client machine and, in a browser, I type http://<servername>/Connector. I download the connector software from the server and I run it as an administrator. After clicking on 'Next' I receive the following error:

"Cannot connect the computer to the server because either another software installation is in progress, or, the computer has a restart pending. Either complete the installation process, or, restart the computer and try to connect again."

I have restarted both my server as well as my client machine, but the error continues to come up. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium on my client machine. I have no updates or restarts pending on either machine. I can RDP to my server just fine and access it like everything is great. I just can't get this Connector software to get going.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[guest]

Update/Solution: For those of you experiencing this issue. Here is the solution I found that worked for me:

Any application can set a pending reboot flag in the operating system through a registry key. Sometimes a reboot does not clear the flag. This is what setup is detecting.

To work around the pending reboot issue:
1. Open Regedit
2. Find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager"
3. Rename the "PendingFileRenameOperations" value to "PendingFileRenameOperations2"

Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums ... c3fb99b3c/

[chicagotech]

Cause

This problem may occur because an earlier software installation on the client computer has left the computer in a restart pending state, and restarting the computer does not clear the state.

To fix this problem yourself on the client computer, follow these steps:
1.Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2.Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

3.After you select the subkey that is specified in step 2, right-click PendingFileRenameOperations, and then click Delete.
4.Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update

5.After you select the key that is specified in step 4, right-click RebootRequired, and then click Delete.
6.On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.
7.Restart the computer.
Note: This steps applies on the client computers running all versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8

[chicagotech]

Yeah I would warn people not to do this fix without first simply restarting their client pc.

[chicagotech]

• I saw this twice, but was able to resolve easily.
Rebooted the client.
uninstalled WHS connector
rebooted AGAIN
reinstalled.

[chicagotech]

Thanks, this was error was really getting to me. I'd installed the connector on two other machines without a problem, but my main desktop PC just kept displaying this error after multiple reboots.

Below was the value in that key:

\??\C:\Windows\TEMP\logishrd\LVPrcInj03.dll

\??\C:\Windows\TEMP\logishrd\

\??\C:\Windows\TEMP\logishrd\LVPrcInj04.dll

\??\C:\Windows\TEMP\logishrd\

[chicagotech]

This logitech dll also looks appears to be the cause of my problem.
I believe that is the same file I was seeing. I just uninstalled the Webcam software and Connector ran fine.

[chicagotech]

Uninstalling Logitech Webcam resolved my issues as well.