WSEE Installer on upgraded Windows Server 2025 Install
Just upgraded my long-standing Windows Server 2022 install to 2025. Unfortunately, the WSE bits seem to have gotten lost in the upgade.
Now I’m stuck in this weird limbo where I can’t update or reinstall using the WSE Installer (the update complains that WSE bits aren’t installed and the full installer complains that it’s already installed), and trying to uninstall from the Control Panel asks me to run a command from an elevated prompt that doesn’t seem to do anything.
Has anyone run into this, and any recommendation on what to do. I think reinstalling would work if I could work out how to clear out the Windows Installer bits still left behind.
- Russell Fishman asked 1 month ago
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In place upgrades from prior versions of Windows Server, where the Windows Server Essentials Experience (WSEE) has been installed by the WSEE Installer, are fully supported by the WSEE Installer. However, during the in place upgrade, Microsoft will forcefully remove all of the Windows Server Essentials assemblies, services, etc. (just as they do during a Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019/2022/2025 in place upgrade) leaving you with an orphaned Windows Server Essentials Experience instance. When you attempt to run the WSEE Installer again, it will refuse to run because another version of the product is already installed. To remedy this, I have built a small “WSEE Zapper” program that you can run in order to remove the orphaned WSEE instance from the server, and thereby allowing you to be able to run the WSEE Installer again.
- Mike answered 1 month ago
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