A client of ours recently ordered a new machine for one of their users. The user was an administrator to their Windows 7 machine. When the user launched the CRM for Outlook installer, they were met with the following error message:
Installation cannot proceed: Setup cannot continue because a pending restart is required. Restart the computer and then try running Setup again.
Multiple reboots later, we were still running into the same issue. The solution, was to make a slight modification to the registry.
1. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft
2. Create a new key named: MSCRMClient
3. In the MSCRMClient keyword, create a a DWORD named IgnoreChecks, and set the value to 1.
