CA Harvest Change Manager - Error 2343.Specified path is empty and Visual Studio plug-in

Products

• CA Harvest Software Change Manager - OpenMake Meister
• CA Harvest Software Change Manager

Issue/Introduction

When upgrading SCM Client and VSIP plugin, getting the following error: Error 2343.Specified path is empty.

Environment

CA Harvest Change Manager

Resolution

1.  Make sure Visual Studio and any open CA Harvest components such as Workbench, Administrator Tool, etc. are shut down

2.  Go to Control Panel -> Programs and uninstall “Enterprise Communicator” first and then all other CA Harvest components

3.  Remove all CA Harvest environment variables

4.  Reboot machine

5.  Go to the Visual Studio installer and confirm these components are installed in addition to any other components you require:

 

6.  From the Harvest installation image, navigate to Client\win32_vsip and execute the setup.exe (NOT the MSI file) by right clicking and selecting “Run as administrator”.  Follow the prompts to complete the install

7.  Reinstall all other CA Harvest components that were uninstalled in Step #2