Hello!

Today when was installing Exchange 2013SP1 onto one of my virtual machines I got the following error:

This error has suprised me in a lot of ways: 1) it was my 10th, or 20th or ... installation of Exchange on to the same test VM and this error has never arised before, 2) it's rather tardy error as Step1 and Step2 completed successfully in spite of "The Windows Installer does not permit installation from a RDP connection." 3) I was using Virtual machine connection - not RDP connection!

???

Thank you in advance,

Michael

Hello!

Today when was installing Exchange 2013SP1 onto one of my virtual machines I got the following error:

This error has suprised me in a lot of ways: 1) it was my 10th, or 20th or ... installation of Exchange on to the same test VM and this error has never arised before, 2) it's rather tardy error as Step1 and Step2 completed successfully in spite of "The Windows Installer does not permit installation from a RDP connection." 3) I was using Virtual machine connection - not RDP connection!

???

Thank you in advance,

Michael

It looks like the installation files are being shared over a terminal services connection (based on what you are saying, I'm guessing you're using Hyper-v and it's using TS to present the files).  I always run into mixed results when I run installs from a path not local to the server.  Can you copy the install paths locally and rerun setup?