Windows Identity Foundation failing installation

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I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that is a client for my CRM. I have Visual Studio 2010 installed and installed the CRM2013 SDK. I am trying to run the Developer Toolkit so I can connect to my CRM and do my Plug In development. When I attempt to run it, I'm informed I need to install Windows Identity Foundation. I downloaded the proper .msu and get an error when attempting to install it.

Installer encountered an error: 0x80070003

The system cannot find the path specified

So far I have tried the following to get here:

1) Windows 7, VS 2013 - had to modify the Toolkit package, and it ran, but login failed due to the Identity

2) Windows 7, VS 2010 - same thing, same result

3) Current - Server 2008 R2, VS 2010 (because the Toolkit install does not support VS 2013)

I also uninstalled SQL Express (installed with VS 2010) from this machine because I read there may be a conflict. Really - this shouldn't be this hard.

Any one have any idea how to get this to install

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Royal King 27,686 on at

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check whether Windows identity foundation is part of windows OS ? That might be the problem.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2012/07/20/issue-when-installing-windows-identity-foundation-on-windows-server-2012.aspx

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You can get that by:

1. Punch that Windows key!

2. Type “Windows Features” and make sure you’ve chosen to search “Settings” from the search pane.

3. Click on “Turn Windows features on or off”

4. Check the box next to “Windows Identity Framework 3.5” (and yes, this supports .NET 3.5 and 4.0 applications).

5. Press “OK” and let setup do it’s thing.

If it does not help you then Before installing Windows Identity Foundation please check -

whether you are connected to proper domain.

Disable third party anti-virus.

Perform clean boot (support.microsoft.com/.../929135)

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Guido - thanks, but I had already done that but the MSU would not run. That was my (last) issue. It is what produced the error I documented in my original post.

Jitendra - thanks and that was going to be my next step. I hesitated since it also wanted to install the IIS features, but I resolved the problem a different way so didn't need to go there.

Perhaps I should have said this before, but this dev machine was running within a VM machine (as is the entire development network - controller, CRM, SQL). The MSU resided on a host drive that was accessible to the guest. I copied the MSU to the guest "Document" folder and ran it and it worked. It seems obvious, but I tried it in one of the earlier iterations and it didn't make a difference.

Anyway, installing that allowed the Toolkit to run as well and now I am connected to CRM and working the project.

Thanks to all for your help.

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