Action failed. This action has been applied 1 time and will not be

(imported topic written by djspade91)

I have created a custom task with the following action scripts listed below to download Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 and install it on BES clients computer but it is not exactly working…the file is downloaded on the client computer in the opsite50/__Download folder but it did not run the installation and i got “failed” status with “Action failed. This action has been applied 1 time and will not be applied again” message in the View Action Info window. I don’t know what I have done wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183490&clcid=0x409/mseinstall.exe

continue if {(size of it = 7866472 AND sha1 of it = “6ff28e3d426439c31caa5e4957c5bea08c78e)a1”) of file “mseinstall.exe” of folder “__Download”}

wait __Download\mseinstall.exe

(imported comment written by djspade91)

I have tested my custom task with a download action script listed below and still get a “failed” status, although it did download the file. Any ideas why it considered this as failed?

download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183490&clcid=0x409/mseinstall.exe

(imported comment written by jeremylam)

What happens when you run the application logged into the client computer?

The application may require user input or running as a local user (the BES Client runs actions as the SYSTEM user). You may be able to find command line arguments to get around the former; the latter may require the use of the RunAsCurrentUser utility.

See http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=392 for more information on RunAsCurrentUser.

(imported comment written by djspade91)

Do you know of an action script or task to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials? I will go with Trend Micro Endpoint for anti-virus instead. Thanks in advance.

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

for your continue if statement, you have a “)” character in your sha1, which i dont think is allowed. SHA1 should be this:

6ff28e3d426439c31caa5e4957c5bea08c78e0a1

-Zak