A local upgrade of the McAfee Agent fails when called from PowerShell
Last Modified: 2021-10-05 16:25:28 Etc/GMT
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A local upgrade of the McAfee Agent fails when called from PowerShell
Technical Articles ID:
KB94946
Last Modified: 2021-10-05 16:25:28 Etc/GMT Environment
McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.6.x and later Microsoft Windows PowerShell Problem 1
A McAfee Agent upgrade fails when you try to upgrade to a later version while invoking the local install from a Windows PowerShell. NOTE: Silent installs also fail. You see this issue on systems that have either or both of the following products installed:
NOTE: The Frame Package name can be different, and depends on the naming convention in the environment. The McAfee Agent displays the error message below: Administrator: Windows PowerShell Cancel Retry Ignore Problem 2
You see the errors below recorded in the MSI (s) (A0:C8) [10:12:31:774]: 7 application(s) had been reported to have files in use. Info 1603.The file C:\Program Files\McAfee\Agent\ssleay32.dll is being held in use by the following process: Name: masvc, ID: 8700, Window Title: (not determined yet). Close that application and retry. Cause
The AMSI framework The data collected through Workaround
Disable the policy option and deploy the McAfee Agent from ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO):
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