Adobe Acrobat Pro DC installation failure - exit code 1603

I was getting this error when imaging a new machine. Other apps were installing fine. The error itself didn't offer much information.

I modified the command line to include verbose logging:

MSIEXEC /i "%loc%AcroPro.msi" /q /norestart TRANSFORMS="%loc%AcroPro.mst" /L*V "%loc%Acrobat.log"

I ran the install again and looked at the log file. There I found an error regarding Visual C++ Redistributable 2013. The install failed because this was not present.

Adobe kind of buries the workaround in their documentation, but addding "IGNOREVCRT64=1" to the command line ignores the Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 requirement and installs cleanly.

MSIEXEC /i "%loc%AcroPro.msi" /q /norestart IGNOREVCRT64=1 TRANSFORMS="%loc%AcroPro.mst" /L*V "%loc%Acrobat.log"

Windows 10 enable Developer Mode error 0x80004005

We want to use the new Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) feature that was included with the 1607 build of Windows 10. To do that, you have to enable Developer Mode. But when we tried, we would get the error:

"Developer mode package failed to install. Error code 0x80004005"

The articles I've found that address this error refer to versions that are using a non EN-US language. That is not the case in our organization. In our case, our group policy settings were preventing the OS from downloading the package from Microsoft Update. The following is a workaround that has worked for us. Just be sure to reverse the settings when you're done.

• Launch regedit.exe and modify this key:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
• UseWUServer to 0 (to disable), restart
• Enable Developer Mode, restart
• Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta), restart
• Launch regedit.exe and modify this key:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
• UseWUServer to 1 (to enable), restart

Hope this helps you as well.