Software and Application Installation Logs
A common task is troubleshooting actual installations of software and applications delivered using ConfigMgr. This task is technically outside the scope of ConfigMgr, which just runs the command-line you give it. What happens after that is up to the command-line but still well within the circle of responsibility of most ConfigMgr admins.
Just as with ConfigMgr, getting a log file for the installation can greatly help in figuring out what’s broken or what went wrong. For Windows Installer (MSI)-based installations, generating a log file is quite easy: Add /l*v C: \Windows\Temp\mymsi.log to the msiexec command line specified in the deployment type or program, where C: \Windows\Temp\mymsi.log is any filename ...
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