I found the Defender installer has some problems. The installer failed every
time, on multiple PC's, when "Custom" was chosen as the install type. The
error was "Failed to find <file> in a temp directory" or something. The odd
thing is the "Custom" install option offers nothing to the User... so why
offer it.

I even tried saving the file locally and running it in the event it had a
bad path or something when ran from the Net... still failed.

I managed to get all installations performed... once I figured the "Custom"
option was broke.

Windows version(s) of the machines in question?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

QA wrote:
> I found the Defender installer has some problems. The installer failed
> every time, on multiple PC's, when "Custom" was chosen as the install
> type. The error was "Failed to find <file> in a temp directory" or
> something. The odd thing is the "Custom" install option offers nothing to
> the User... so why offer it.
>
> I even tried saving the file locally and running it in the event it had a
> bad path or something when ran from the Net... still failed.
>
> I managed to get all installations performed... once I figured the
> "Custom" option was broke.

XP Pro/Home w SP2 .. sorry I forgot to include this.

"PA Bear" wrote:

> Windows version(s) of the machines in question?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>
> QA wrote:
> > I found the Defender installer has some problems. The installer failed
> > every time, on multiple PC's, when "Custom" was chosen as the install
> > type. The error was "Failed to find <file> in a temp directory" or
> > something. The odd thing is the "Custom" install option offers nothing to
> > the User... so why offer it.
> >
> > I even tried saving the file locally and running it in the event it had a
> > bad path or something when ran from the Net... still failed.
> >
> > I managed to get all installations performed... once I figured the
> > "Custom" option was broke.
>

Thanks - the current known issues page at Microsoft's Defender pages
mentions that the custom install is broken for x64. Maybe it needs
revision!

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"QA" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I found the Defender installer has some problems. The installer failed
>every
> time, on multiple PC's, when "Custom" was chosen as the install type. The
> error was "Failed to find <file> in a temp directory" or something. The
> odd
> thing is the "Custom" install option offers nothing to the User... so why
> offer it.
>
> I even tried saving the file locally and running it in the event it had a
> bad path or something when ran from the Net... still failed.
>
> I managed to get all installations performed... once I figured the
> "Custom"
> option was broke.