WiX 3.0 throws error 217, while being executed by continuous integration

Question

This is the error that is thrown by our automated build suite on Windows 2008, while running ICEs (after migrating from WiX 2.0 to WiX 3.0):

LGHT0217:

Answer 1

imagi is totally right! I could not believe this is the true answer. Supressing validation and making TFS user Administrator are not good solutions. Plus I could not find NT\Authority to add it to Administrators group and was totally stuck in this.

I got the same error on Windows Server 2012 Datacenter as Build Agent. To solve the problem :

1. List item
2. Go to Environment Variables on the build agent machine
3. Create two System Variables
4. "PF86" which is equal to "C:\Program Files (x86)"
5. "PF" which is equal to "C:\Program Files"
6. They are so short because I want to save characters.I made them without the final backslash because TEMP, TMP and others were made so and I decided to stick to MS standard for these variables.
7. Edit PATH variable by substituting every "C:\Program Files (x86)" with %PF86% and every "C:\Program Files" with %PF%
8. Close and build and enjoy!
9. It worked for me. :)

UPDATE I found a better solution : Rapid Environment Editor will do all this and even more for you. Automatically.