Installing the TFS Power Toys on Vista

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If you try and install the Team Foundation Server Power Toys (or Tools) on a Vista machine, you may well see the following error:

Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

Solving this is quite easy; you just need to fire up a command prompt using the Run As Admin setting and use the msiexec command line:

msiexec /i "tfs power tools.msi" 

The reason for this is due to the increased security in Vista, for more information on this, see https://devreadiness.org/default.aspx

Neil.