Upgrade Issues
Issue:
- When trying to upgrade Splunk UF on Windows, the upgrade installer wizard provides less options than normal and fails during the upgrade process.
Root Cause:
- Bad/corrupted registry entry within Windows which may even get deployed to multiple systems via Windows SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) which is used to deploy software and patches to Windows systems.
Solution:
- A backup of the above registry key was saved from Windows regedit and then the key was removed. After doing this the Windows upgrade installer presented further options and the upgrade was completed normally.ion, which can be set to "1" to install as the Local System