Solving Microsoft Secure Download Manager issues
Friday, June 28. 2013
Ok. SDM is not the best piece of software ever written. It fails on everybody and everything. There is a lot of grievance in a MSDN discussion thread.
Problem 1:
The first issue I encountered was that it didn't install. It said "The System Administrator Has Set Policies to Prevent This Installation". That is not a standard Windows error message, and I gather it is something the lovely programmers made the app say when failing.
Solution 1:
Run it with Administrator -privileges. The installation package is distributed as MSI-package and Windows Explorer doesn't offer the "Run as Administrator" -option on it. I started a Power Shell as administrator and executed the installed from there. That fixed it.
Problem 2:
Download fails to start on "Active Scripting must be enabled". Well, I have that enabled.
Solution 2:
Make sure following domains are in Trusted sites -list. (See: Internet Options -> Security)
- http://e5.onthehub.com
- http://static.onthehub.com
- http://ajax.googleapis.com
Then the goddamn thing starts to download.
I'd like to second OtaconHC's opinion from the MSDN-thread: The SDM is a failure by design.
