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AlexanderLindberg
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Dec 17, 2025

Windows Installer logging is not working on W11 25H2

Hello,

I am trying to troubleshoot a failed GPO software deployment, the GPO log itself is not detailed enough, so I tried to enable the Windows Installer logging options as per this article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/application-management/enable-windows-installer-logging

I tried both the GPO approach and directly modifying the registry (even though the flags from the GPO were already populated there), but there are no msi*.log files created anywhere.

 

For the GPO installations I expect the log files to be created from the system account, either in %windir%\Temp or somewhere under \%windir%\System32\config\systemprofile

 

I though that maybe there is something preventing the GPO installations to create log files, perhaps since they are silent. According to the article:

Each time that you use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel, a new Msi*.log file is created.

so I tested by removing a random program from a user session, expecting a file to be created in %temp%, but again, nothing.

 

Is this feature broken, or am I missing something?

 

Best regards

Alexander

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