Plesk upgrade fails on installing IIS Rewrite: The installation of the package 'urlrewrite' failed with code 1603

Symptoms

Plesk upgrade for Windows fails with the following error:

CONFIG_TEXT: MSI: Error! An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Management.Rewrite,fileVersion="7.1.761.0",version="7.2.2.001",culture="neutral",publicKeyToken="31BF3856AD364E35",processorArchitecture="MSIL"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F.
Failed to install 'C:\\a9f588c2d45cba549bb91b9b7de86ab2\\parallels\\PANEL-WIN_11.5.30\ hirdparty-msi-Windows-any-x86_64\\rewrite_2.0_rtw_x64.msi': Fatal error during installation. (Error code 1603)
Error: The installation of the package 'urlrewrite' failed with code 1603. (install: installing IIS URL Rewrite Module...)
Not all packages were installed.
Please, contact product technical support.

Cause

1. .Net Framework 2.0 package is corrupted.
2. IIS Rewrite module installation fails for some other reason.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server via RDP.

2. Open Server Manager > Tools > Add Features and Roles and install .Net Framework 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.5 ( but not 4+ ):

   

   Manual installation is available at  this link .

3. Try installing IIS Rewrite module manually (having downloaded a package for Plesk 17.8, or for Plesk 17.5).

4. If installation of IIS Rewrite MSI package in command-line

   C:\> msiexec /i C:\ParallelsInstaller\parallels\PANEL-WIN_17.5.3\thirdparty-msi-Windows-any-x86_64\rewrite_7.2.1952_x64.msi /L*V C:\2.txt.

   fails with the following message in log file:

   CONFIG_TEXT: MSI (s) (00:3C) [18:56:23:252]: Calling SRSetRestorePoint API. dwRestorePtType: 0, dwEventType: 102, llSequenceNumber: 0, szDescription: "Installed IIS URL Rewrite Module 2".
   MSI (s) (00:3C) [18:56:23:252]: The call to SRSetRestorePoint API failed. Returned status: 0. GetLastError() returned: 127

   then temporary enable ProhibitRollback Group Policy (Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Installer). Afterwards, install IIS Rewrite module using aforementioned command and then revert ProhibitRollback Group Policy back.