Today I had an issue with installing a deployable package from the sommand prompt. When the runbook tried to stop the Retail Server i got the following error on step 1:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706BA): The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)

I then saw that it was using the server name, and I thought that it might work using locka host instead… the only problem was that I had imported the runbook and it had failed… how am I supposd to fix this?

I found my runbook file in the folder where I had extracted the package. I opened it in Notepad and ran search and replace on the file. I saved the file and tried to import it again using:

AXUpdateInstaller.exe import -runbookfile=”[runbookfilename]”

and then I restarted the package install using:

AXUpdateInstaller.exe execute -runbookid=[runbookid] -rerunstep=1

Wohoo… it worked!!!

Remember: If you are running AXUpdateInstaller from powershell you need to add .\ before the command

/Johan