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

None of the above suggestions worked for me, for me the anti-virus (mcafee) came into the picture and looks like it updated the vbscript.dll registry entry to a wrong DLL location. These are the things to keep in mind:

1. Some of the WiX ICE validations are implemented using VBSCRIPT.
2. So while compiling the MSI, the build server would need access to the c:\windows\system32\vbscript.dll.
3. Chances are that somehow the user that runs your build lost access to this DLL.
4. As mentioned in the above answers do look for the admin access/registry access and make sure your user has it.

Here are the steps that I took to fix the issue:

1. Open cmd (run as admin) on the build agent machine.
2. Run RegEdit
3. Select the root, then click ctrl + f and Search for the following registry entry : {B54F3741-5B07-11cf-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}
4. Look for the InprocServer32\Default Key

1. On my build agent, the path was replaced with a mcafee DLL location. I updated the path back to c:\windows\system32\vbscript.dll
2. Editing the registry entry was not easy, as it was a protected registry entry. I used the below link to get access permissions changed before I could edit the property: Edit protected registry entry

Once I updated the path, everything started working as usual.