Trying to install outlook 2010 on an sbs2011 server (has all the relevant service packs) It gets to the end of the install then says 'Outlook 2010 encountered and error during setup' Gives no error code only option is click on close There was a previous trial copy of office professional plus on the machine which has been removed We have have checked the registry Very annoying Anyone got aclue what could be causing this we are logged in as superadmin

I recommend that you post your question to the Outlook forum or the SBS forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/outlook/threads http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threads I would also reconsider whether you need or should even install Outlook on the server.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

wildo Ed We need outlook as we are using backup assist which requirwes outlok to backup exchane/outlook mailboxes bigger than 2gbB Neil

I wouldn't back up mailboxes. Back up the Information Store. Mailbox backup is a time-consuming tape-wasting feature that you really shouldn't need.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Hi You can read this SBS case. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/41f4ddd4-a948-46a4-989a-c38a47411005/ You can read IbanezWiz's post. I will get blasted for this but I have Outlook 2010 installed on SBS 2011 with five different email accounts added to it. SBS 2011 support outlook 2010 which install on same server. It is outlook installation problem. You can post it to outlook forum. Crowley has posted link. TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.comTerence Yu TechNet Community Support

Hi Do you have anything update on this issue ?Terence Yu TechNet Community Support

no we dont - everyone keeps saying you shouldnt put outlook 2010 on sbs 2011 server. but we have no choice. No one has come up with an explanation. there is nothing in the logs to indicate why it fails - just the simple error message which has no reference number B Neil