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When installing Office (or other programs) you get:

This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.

This is an MSI error 1625. Steps to do...

Run the setup program in verbose mode:

setup.exe /L*v c:\verbose.txt

Then you can check out the error messages, pay particular note to the product ID. {#####-####-###########}

Run Regedit, go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products and (after backing up the registry) delete all instances of the Product ID.

Then reinstall...

posted by The LoneStranger rides again! @ 12:44 PM