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Unable to install Cumulative Update on the Exchange server 2013 server. Error: Couldn't remove product with code c3f10d8c-bd70-4516-b2b4-bf6901980741

I recently came up with a case where the customer was not able to install CU18 on a Exchange 2013 server.
We were getting the following error while installing the CU

Error:
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Mailbox role: Transport service                           FAILED
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
uninstall-MsiPackage -ProductCode '{C3F10D8C-BD70-4516-B2B4-BF6901980741}' -LogFile ($RoleSetupLoggingPath + "\UninstallASDat.msilog")" was run: "Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.TaskException: Couldn't remove product with code c3f10d8c-bd70-4516-b2b4-bf6901980741. The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it. Error code is 1612. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Excep
tion: The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ThrowError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory errorCategory, Object target, String helpUrl)   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.UninstallMsi.RemoveProductCode(Guid productCode)   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.UninstallMsi.InternalProcessRecord()   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".

 

We could see the following error in the Exchange setup logs:
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Type library exporter warning processing 'Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Transport.Interop.IProxyCallback.SetWriteStream(writeStream), Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.Agent.ContentFilter.ComInterop'. Warning: Type library exporter could not find the type library for 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.IStream'.  IUnknown was substituted for the interface.
Assembly exported to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\ComInterop.tlb', and the type library was registered successfully

[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0669] [2] Process standard error:
[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0681] [2] Ending processing register-ComInteropTLB
[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0689] [1] Executing:
uninstall-MsiPackage -ProductCode '{C3F10D8C-BD70-4516-B2B4-BF6901980741}' -LogFile ($RoleSetupLoggingPath + "\UninstallASDat.msilog")

[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0705] [2] Active Directory session settings for 'Uninstall-MsiPackage' are: View Entire Forest: 'True', Configuration Domain Controller: 'DC.___domain.com', Preferred Global Catalog: 'DC.___domain.com', Preferred Domain Controllers: '{ 'DC.___domain.com' }'
[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0706] [2] User specified parameters:  -ProductCode:'c3f10d8c-bd70-4516-b2b4-bf6901980741' -LogFile:'C:\ExchangeSetupLogs\UninstallASDat.msilog'
[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0706] [2] Beginning processing uninstall-MsiPackage
[01/06/2018 01:31:27.0723] [2] Removing MSI package with code 'c3f10d8c-bd70-4516-b2b4-bf6901980741'.

 

The CU was looking for Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam agents file.
ASDat.MSI
ASEntIRS.MSI

In order to fix the issue, we used the Msizap.exe file from the Windows SDK kit.

We downloaded the Windows SDK kit from following ___location
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6510

We then pointed the command prompt to the ___location of Msizap.exe and executed the following command to all the components of Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam from the box.

Msizap.exe T {C3F10D8C-BD70-4516-B2B4-BF6901980741}
Msizap.exe T {14F288C7-C695-40D5-971D-8890605C6040}
Msizap.exe T {93FCFF43-49E2-4AE5-9AD4-0256878AB886}

We once again started the CU update and it was successfully installed.

Hope this helps !!!

 

-Raghav