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Skype for Business: “Prerequisite installation failed: MSSpeech_TTS_pt-BR_Heloisa”

While doing a Skype for Business deployment, I encountered this strange error that was preventing the S4B server components from installing: “Prerequisite installation failed: MSSpeech_TTS_pt-BR_Heloisa”.

The log file showed the following:

languageErrors

After doing some Googling, the consensus was to find the MSI file and replace it.

The file was located here: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Skype for Business Server\Deployment\cache\6.0.9319.0\setup\speech\pt-BR\

However, the question was where to get the speech files. I tried getting them from the ISO, but it appeared the files on the ISO were corrupted, so I had to get the files here:

Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime Languages (Version 10.1)

I ended downloading what I needed, but subsequent MSI files were also having problems, so I ended up just replacing MSIs in the the directories “pt-BR” through “zh-TW” just to be safe.

The installation then continued successfully as expected.

Hope this helps someone.

Update (06/07/16): Had this problem again (forgot to replace ISO), and I found out that if you keep the S4B ISO mounted or DVD in the system, then S4B will re-download the bad packages from the ISO/DVD. Dismount or eject the media, then copy the MSI files.

Update 2 (09/20/16): You can also just re-download the ISO. Problem solved. 😀

Virtualbox VLANs in Ubuntu

Wanted to add quick note about VLANs, VirtualBox, and Ubuntu.

Virtualbox does VLANs a little differently on Ubuntu than other hypervisors. In order to get a VLANs working for a Virtualbox VM, you have to create a subinterface that is for a specific VLAN (of course, assuming your NIC supports 802.1q tagging). To create a subinterface in Ubuntu, follow the instructions here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/vlan

Then in Virtualbox, you set the network interface to ‘bridged mode’, then select the subinterface. Assuming your new subinterface is permanent, the VM will use that subinterface and be within that VLAN.

I’m not entirely sure how to accomplish this for Virtualbox on Windows. It would seem like you would need a separate physical interface, especially for Windows 10 and probably others.

Unrelated note: Virtualbox on Windows 10 is horrible, and so is the native Hyper-V, but that’s for another post, maybe.

Edit (20180705): A few years later, and I can honestly say VirtualBox on Windows 10 is stable now, and has been for awhile. Felt the need to update this. :-p