system administrator set policies to prevent this installation

April 13, 2012

I encountered this issue on windows server 2008 but it applies to windows 7/vista as well.

Problem:

You receive this error when trying to run a .msi file:

“system administrator set policies to prevent this installation”

Fix:

1. Start up a windows administrative command prompt

2. Browse to directory of offending file

3. type in file name and hit enter