:FYI:

So those of you who’ve installed an application on the Microsoft platform have no doubt run into issues from time to time when installing an MSI package (Microsoft System Installer).

I recently ran into a problem where an MSI package would just not start up correctly and nearly instantly tell me that it was interrupted and could not continue. In order to determine the culprit I had to try to install the package with logging enabled; [msiexec /l* x:\install.log /i "%PATH_TO_PACKAGE%"].

Once the log file was created I had to search through to locate the actual error that was causing my problem, which I did and found the following non-descript error code; (0×800cc810).

After a few minutes of digging I discovered that this is typically related to an MS IIS installation error of some sort. In order to fix it I just reinstalled the local IIS (through Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs).

Ran my MSI package again and POW!!! No Installation issues ran through without a hitch. (So to speak.)