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Windows Defender Install Sufficient Privileges
I am trying to install Defender on Windows Server 2012 R2 and get the error ..'don't have sufficient privileges to install system services'- even though I am and Administrator on the server. Any hel...
Adam_Bleakney having the exact same issue, have lodged a ticket with MS support, I'll reply if they come back with anything useful.
I noted that in the System and Application event logs, during the installer, a log is generated that indicates that the failure of the installation is partially caused by a timeout in starting the WinDefend service, presumably because it can't install it, and the time you take to press the 'Retry' button is counted before the .msi proceeds to the next step of starting the service.
All Windows Server 2012 R2 servers patched to the prerequisite level.
