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MSI Administrative Installs with SDMSILIB on Windows Server 2003

When using MSI administrative installations to deploy packages over the SDMSILIB share, the "sd_sscmd libraryaccess" method is not sufficient for connecting to that share. Agents must be able to access this share even when installations or configurations using software delivery (SD) functionality are not running. Reason is that access requests to the SDMSILIB share may be requested by MSI installations at any time, for example, when performing repair or self healing. Instead, SD relies that agents are granted access to the SDMSILIB share through their machine domain accounts.