Monday, July 22, 2013

Complete WSUS Installation - Fatal Error: Illegal characters in path.

Setting up a new WSUS server on Windows Server 2012, when I entered the content path as E:\ and clicked Run I received the following error message:

Log file is located at C:\Users\clint.boessen\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpE3AA.tmp
Post install is starting
Fatal Error: Illegal characters in path.


Turns out you cannot specify root partitions, you need to specify a directory such as E:\WSUS.  Changing the path resolved the issue.

 

10 comments:

  1. It's not about root partition, it's about trailing slash. E:\WSUS\ will give you the same error. E:\WSUS will work.

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    2. what he is saying that you cannot just do E:\ you have to use a folder.

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  2. Thanks Client (AND Vlad). Works with E: instead of E:\

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  3. Saved my bacon - thanks all. Why would a \ be so important to fail the install... you'd think 2 years later it would have been sorted. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Indeed -- helped me out as well. Totally concur -- how hard would it be to check for trailing \'s and remove them (or at least make the error description explain the issue).

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  4. Thanks. That... is a stupid glitch. Microsoft could at least make the error message less ambiguous.

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  5. Thanks Yar.... Its Work ...The folder path should not end with "\"

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