Systems Management

Are you installing from an offline installer or from the net? Is this on a 32 or 64 bit machine and is the installer for 32 bit or 64 bit?

I am installing with the offline x32 installer onto a Windows 7 x64 workstation. (Actually 700+ of them)

I realize you have gone to great lengths to clean up the old Java, but for testing purposes you could try the Java uninstall utility just to see if maybe it's stubborn residual files or registry entries tripping you up.  There used to be a free tool out there called JavaRa that worked very well for cleaning up Java.  I'm not sure if it still exists, though.  Also, Oracle might have their own.

OK Guys - finally figured it out!  Here's what I did...

1.       Applied our standard Gold Image to a VM

2.       Installed an OEM copy of Windows 7 x64 SP1 to a VM (plus all updates – did not install any applications or any version of Java)

3.       Downloaded RegScanner (portable version) and did the below on each of the 2 vms

a.       Opened RegScanner

b.      Choose all HK sets (5 I think)

c.       In search field just typed “java”

d.      Saved/exported results as .reg files with name matching VM it came from

4.       Used WinMerge to compare the two reg files (since they are text based)

5.       Copied / pasted all differences between two into a single .reg file in NotePad++

6.       Did a find/replace and replaced “[HKEY” with “[-HKEY]” (which tells the .reg file to remove the key not add it)

Even though it worked, I'm in process now of rebuilding Gold Image via SCCM OSD because above doesn't seem stable enough for me.  Thanks for your help!

Beginner's stuff...

What's happening is that the installer is trying to register a DLL but can't because a dependent DLL isn't on the machine. Run ProcMon while the installation runs. You will be able to instantly identify the DLL which is missing. Remember to filter out stuff you're not interested in (explorer.exe, your a/v processes, etc,. etc.) 

Others might have more knowledge than me but have you tried re-downloading the offline file incase the first one is faulty.

I have had issues deploying Java to live machines. I know you're on SCCM which is a platform I'm not very familiar with, but do you have the option of running this on startup? One of the things that bombed our Java installs for the longest time were the Java services running on the machine or a browser being open and using Java at the time of the software push. It would appear to be installed correctly from all appearances, but when you tried to navigate to a Java enabled page it wouldn't work. We started deploying software before the login screen loads and since then things have been awesome. I hope this helps.

Though not a very good solution, but can you copy installer.dll from a good machine to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin and rerun the setup? It might be that previous java install/uninstall became a mess.

I wrote a PowerShell script to auto-update Java. Initially it was written only to install and update, but after some testing I came across, among other things, the errors discussed in this thread.

I'm currently playing with the latest version as of 2013-11-25 (Java 7 Update 45), and consistently and reproducibly I get the installer.dll error when I install it multiple times silently. However, just clicking "ok" on the popup seems to work when uninstalling, and then reinstalling seems fine. This might not work for all scenarios discussed here.

To automate this "ok click" on the rundll32.exe installer.dll popup message, I wrote some convoluted logic and start the uninstall as a background job, wait for a while (configurable) and then simply kill rundll32.exe. It's quite hackish, but might just do the trick. It does in my test environment, at least. Make sure you read the full article to understand properly how it works.

The article about the script is here: http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/PowerShell_Java_Auto-Update_Script

Thanks for the suggestions guys...

This morning I tried out ProcMan (portable) but didn't see anything dedfinitive in the results.  If anyone could be so kind as to review them, I'd really appreciate it!  If so, below is the procedure I performed as well as the links...  Thanks for your help guys!

1. Reimaged a VM without our Gold Image (Win7x64 /w Java 7u17x32 installed)
2. Started ProcMon Portable and filtered out a lot of stuff already being monitored except for DLL related
3. Restarted capture log, then ran OEM Java 7u21 x32 MSI.
4. The error appeared at 10:29:21 in the log.  At 10:29:40, I clicked OK on the error which resumed the installation.  I stopped the capture a few seconds after installation completed

Thanks Again!

-- Edit --

Just in case, I did the process all over again, but used the Procmon defaults for the filter instead.  The error appears at about 10:41:41 on thisd log and I click OK on it at about 10:42:13.  Thanks!

Logfile(UnfilteredPML).rar - 17.19mb

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1z603mfg9nqltph/Logfile%28UnfilteredPML%29.rar

Logfile(UnfilteredCSV).rar - 5.55mb

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1aimny7s7kqe3zt/Logfile%28UnfilteredCSV%29.rar

Logfile(UnfilteredXML).rar - 6.33mb

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhx145fzmvh9el7/Logfile%28UnfilteredXML%29.rar

Thanks again!