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Getting “ESENT Kerys are required to install this application” when you are trying to modify/change an agent installation?

This seems to be  most common on Windows 2008 and i guess it’s because of the AUC and the fact that opening the Control Panel isn’t running in administrative mode.

To work around this you need to run the msiexec command on the correct installation GUID from an administrative command prompt.

Besides running through the registry to find the GUID, one of the easier ways is this:

1. Open an administrative command prompt.
2. run wmic product
3. Locate your product by its name, the GUID (looks a bit like this {25097770-2B1F-49F6-AB9D-1C708B96262A}) directly after that is the one you want. Copy it.
4. run msiexec /i <PASTEYOURGUIDHERE>
5. Modify the agent as pleased

That’s pretty much it. Good luck.

Let’s say you have followed this guide: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938245/

Still not working? The one thing I forgot, or rather did not find in any of the guides, was to change the website application pool to “Classic .NET AppPool”. It is actually noted in KB938245 but only after the installation, during the configuration. For some reason I have not been able to install Reporting Services 2005 on Windows 2008 without changing this prior to the installation.

Maybe I am doing it wrong but this seems to be working all right for me.