Recently I needed to update my Office 2013 App-V 5 package. This is done via the Microsoft ODT tool by first downloading the content and then packaging using the /packager command. The download went fine, but upon running the packager phase the command would immediately go straight back to the prompt, which is an indication that something went wrong because the packager phase usually takes a good 10 minutes to run. I checked and double-checked the xml files used to build the package but it looked good. Troubleshooting the ODT setup is pretty straight forward, however; simply locate the setup logs in %temp%. They are named by computer name name + date.log. In my case, I kept encounter the following line in the logs:
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02/12/2016 15:00:31.828 SETUP (0x1cc8) 0xc40 Click-To-Run Telemetry ami7s Monitorable TryLaunchClient::HandleStateAction: C2R Client Install Process returned code 17003 |
This wasn’t completely unexpected as I have used this computer previously to create my Office 2013 App-V packages. But I had never encountered it so I was not sure where to look to clean up the previous install. Enter Process Monitor. I fired it up, reproduced the issue, stopped the trace. Although the trace was only a few seconds, this will likely result in thousands or ten of thousands of operations being captured. This “noise” can quickly be cleaned up, though, using filters. I figured the likely culprit would be in the registry, so I started with limiting results to RegQueryKey. From there, I filtered for the only processes involved. With ODT, this is setup.exe which then calls OfficeClickToRun.exe.
From here, I could see HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0 was being touched. Note, that whatever version of Office you are packaging should not be installed on the machine where you are doing the packaging so any key created here would have been done by the ODT setup.
Simply delete this key and run setup /packager again.
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