


If you used a command prompt that isn’t elevated you get the following error in the event viewer, even though you elevate the MSI installation.

Now that you have the MSI file you have probably tried to install it from the command line using “msiexec /qb /i jre1.8.0_25.msi”. Copy this MSI to another location then cancel the installation. Open up the correct folder, and within the folder you will see the MSI file “jre1.8.0_25.msi”. Open the folder “%LOCALAPPDATA%Low\Sun\Java”, depending if you ran the i586 or 圆4 version you will see one of the following folders. To extract the MSI, run the “jre-8u25-windows-i586.exe” or “jre-8u25-windows-圆4.exe” EXE do not proceed with the installation. Update : If you are deploying Java 8 Update 60 please see my updated post GPO – Deploying Java 8 Update 60 as Oracle have made some changes to the MSI that means the instructions below no longer work.
