Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

When installing or upgrading the XIA Configuration Server you see the error "A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file <path>.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt." This is typically caused in a disconnected environment where the trusted certificate authorities are not updated automatically. The system can therefore not validate the certificate that was used to sign the XIA Configuration Server installer. To validate the signature, right click the installer and select properties, and then view the Digital Signatures tab. Select the signature and click Details, issues with the signature will be displayed here. Clicking View Certificate and then viewing the Certification Path tab will display the certificates that are required to complete the chain. More Information For more information about disconnected environments please see the following Microsoft article https://s...

You may find when you're trying to remove a HP printer on Windows 10 that you can't and the printer is stuck in printers in control panel. Clicking Remove Device does nothing and the status of the printer is displayed as Removing Device. Rebooting does not resolve the issue. Attempting to uninstall the HP software hangs during the uninstallation. The method I used to resolve this issue was as follows Reboot the computer and login as the built-in Administrator account. Check the Print Spooler service is running. Goto device manager and uninstall the WSD Print Provider for this printer. Then remove the Software devices related to the printer. If you go back to the printer you will see that the icon has changed. Reboot the computer again, and login as the built-in Administrator account and then you should now be able to remove the printer.

We've recently had issues with installers created by AdvancedInstaller by Caphyon that do not elevate UAC to administrator correctly on uninstall. This was causing one of our custom actions to fail on uninstall. Which lead to a "A program required for this install to complete could not be run" error. The confusion here seems to be that the install gives you an option to Run as Administrator , however this does not apply to the uninstallation. For this to work you must select the following option hidden in the Themes section.