Office Web Apps Server – KB2592525 Installation failed

4. March 2013 12 Comments

I’ve recently updated our company’s internal SharePoint 2010 portal to SharePoint 2013. One difference is that web apps is now a separate installation on another machine. The installation is straight forward and documented on Technet . However, there was on tricky issue. KB2592525 is a prerequisite and the PS New-OfficeWebAppsFarm cmdlet checks if the KB2592525 is installed. I was installing on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with all the actual patches but KB2592525 was not installed and the KB2592525 installer refused to install on this machine. One way to get around this issue is to force the update using pkgmgr.

Download KB2592525 to folder on your system
Create a new folder called “files”
Extract the MSU: expand Windows6.1-KB2592525-x64.msu –F:* .\files
go to files
Install using Pkgmgr: pkgmgr /ip /m:Windows6.1-KB2592525-x64.cab

That’s it, and the New-OfficeWebAppsFarm cmdlet will accept this workaround.

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12 Responses to Office Web Apps Server – KB2592525 Installation failed

Tom Rimala says:

11. April 2013 at 10:01

Nice one 🙂 Had the same problem, and your solution fixed it.

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- Soren Fleron says:
  
  26. July 2013 at 15:26
  
  Great Thank you very much – was looking for a way. Some said to uninstall a certain KB that comes with windows update, but this works a lot better.
  Best regards Soren
  
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prasadom says:

22. November 2013 at 15:08

hi,

can you pls explain whats the meaning of below:

expand Windows6.1-KB2592525-x64.msu –F:* .\files

should i run this command on a command prompt?

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- erpcoder says:
  
  22. November 2013 at 21:28
  
  yes, expand is a built in command line tool that extracts the Content of a package like .msu
  
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Dmitriy says:

14. January 2014 at 07:28

Thanks a lot!
Very helpful.

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BSOBCZYK says:

1. April 2014 at 10:53

Thanks, its working

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