Great idea, thank you! 🙂 ... View more

Yes this issue is still in IS 2018 R2 and IS 2020 R1. I just opened a support case about it. ... View more

I worked my way through this not -very-helpful error and in case anyone is experiencing the same situation this is what I found. In my case this was Windows Server 2016: What I found was that there are items required to be installed on the target machine before the web deploy install is run or you can get nondescript errors during the install. Having the machine setup just for local web deploy package imports is not sufficient. This is because the web deploy package in IS uses the remote deployment capabilities of IIS. Those capabilities are not required for doing manual local web deploy zip file imports into IIS. This is what I found to be required for it to work, and to receive meaningful feedback in the install log: Obviously the machine must have IIS installed. Not as obvious is that the Web Management Service option in IIS must be installed as well. Then MS Web Deploy must be installed. It must be installed after the Web Management Service to get the options available that are needed. MS Web Deploy must include the Remote Agent Service, since this is used by InstallShield's web deploy project. Before the web deploy package will be successful in the IS installer, both the Web Management and Web Deployment Agent Services must be installed and running on the machine. I hope this can help someone out. ... View more

Hi @ckari_genetec ,   I had quickly tested this behavior,with following steps: Created a Suite setup with necessary packages been added In the other machine,i had executed the command:Setup.exe /stage_only ISRootStagePath="C:\MyStagingArea" It will ask for install which will update the package root-stage directory Now on executing setup.exe,it  will pick it from staged location.Is this not working for you? "it gets the packages from the location where they staged the packages, rather than from the location defined inside the suite project." -Can you elaborate this? You can use extract from setup.exe as well why do you go for stage_once option,is there any specific use-case? Thanks, Jenifer ... View more