Windows Service Error: Installog access is Denied

Question

I get following error while installing my Windows service through Command prompt

Access to the path 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.In stallLog' is denied.

I am using following command:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>installutil.exe "C:\Hive-WindowsService\HiveBatchProcess\HiveBatchProcess\bin\Debug\HiveBatchProcess.exe" -i

What could be wrong?

Answer 1

Try running from a different directory (eg %TEMP%)- it just needs access to write the log file to the current directory, and by default non-administrators can't write to {{c:\Windows}} subdirectories.

eg:

cd %TEMP%
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe" "C:\Hive-WindowsService\HiveBatchProcess\HiveBatchProcess\bin\Debug\HiveBatchProcess.exe" -i

Depending on what the install logic in HiveBatchProcess.exe does, you may or may not need additional permissions (eg registry access, write access to other directories, etc). But running installutil.exe does not strictly require administrator permissions.

Answer 2

do you have administrator rights ? Try to run the service setup by launching the command prompt as administartor.

Answer 3

cd "%temp%" then "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe" "\ourServiceexe.exe"

i changed the service password to admin password of the server