“The path is not of a legal form” while installing the Dynamics CRM Outlook client

Recently, I was installing the Dynamics CRM 4.0 Outlook client on a test server. After selecting the install directory, I received an error message saying “The path is not of a legal form”.

This path is not of a legal form

However, the specified folder was “C:\Program Files\CRM Client” and it was present on the C drive. After a few searches on the Web, I found someone having a similar issue while installing the CRM Data Migration Manager.Their solution was to update manually the registry.

Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\59DD8CB00184F24E99A62CF4D6109FA\InstallProperties]

Name: InstallLocation
Set the Data value to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM”

path-is-not-of-a-legal-form-registry

After this modification, setup continued without an error (this was empty on my installation).

Like this:

Be the first to like this post.

This entry was posted on January 17, 2009 at 4:18 pm and is filed under Installation, Microsoft CRM, Support. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

12 Responses to ““The path is not of a legal form” while installing the Dynamics CRM Outlook client”

CRM 4.0 Outlook Client Installation Problem | keyongtech Says:
January 30, 2009 at 10:08 pm
[...] look here: “The path is not of a legal form” while installing the Dynamics CRM Outlook client http://usingdynamicscrm.wordpress.co…utlook-client/ Cheers Arne « CRMApplPool is not created | – [...]
SE Says:
April 15, 2009 at 3:41 am
It works! Thanks!
vladimir Says:
April 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm
On My server the installation key of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\43689CC1EAEE14C458FDAD0580BC0C97\InstallProperties]

Setting the value [InstallLocation] to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM” the setup continued.

Thanks!
Alexander Says:
June 4, 2009 at 7:53 am
In my case – key name was:
059DD8CB00184F24E99A62CF4D6109FA

Differs from topic with leading zero
Edwin2win Says:
June 8, 2009 at 2:12 am
Thanks, It worked great…
Oliver Says:
November 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Thanks for the post, you saved a server from flying out the window! LOL

Cheers
Jim B Says:
December 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Thanks for the post- this worked perfectly!
pablop Says:
October 21, 2010 at 8:45 am
hey!
got the same problem installing Dynamics CRM Data Migration Wizard.
this worked like a charm! you made my day. thanks!
PP
Alan C Says:
November 16, 2010 at 7:27 pm
On my server the key name was:

C5D06E9536719E94DB7D0491EB205E22

This is on a Windows 2008 x64 server with CRM 4.0 x64.
Patrik T Says:
February 9, 2011 at 7:41 am
GUID differes from installation to installation. You should search DisplayName=Server Microsoft Dynamics CRM, it is the correct key.

Thanks for help, it saved my nervers.
Vijay Deshpande Says:
February 9, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Thanks for the post. It worked!!! Cheers.
josua Says:
April 5, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Perfect, Works !!

Using Dynamics CRM