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Wednesday, 23 January 2013

This program cannot run because a reboot is in progress or software distribution is paused.

Really quick post here.  You may find when running an SCCM2007 task sequence from Run Advertised Programs that you get an error regarding another program is installing please try later. 

when examining the execmgr.log you will see This program cannot run because a reboot is in progress or software distribution is paused.

This worked for me - not claiming it to be a fix for everyone but you could try it.  On the problematic machine go to either:

  • x86 – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Software Distribution\State\
  • x64 – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Software Distribution\State\

Set both "Paused" keys in there back to "0" if they are on "1" and then reboot.  Fixed it for me!!!
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 December 2013 at 23:44

    Thanks a lot. Worked for me.

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  2. Anonymous12 February 2014 at 03:22

    Worked. Thanks

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  3. Unknown14 January 2015 at 11:54

    And what if the both keys are set to 0 and the problem still occurs?
    Any suggestions?

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    1. Doc Norton4 February 2015 at 14:14

      Are you getting that message in the log file?

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  4. Anonymous31 March 2015 at 06:40

    Thanks Mate. That has saved me a lot of time. Worked like a charm

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