Installer Exiting with a code other than 0, even upon a successful installation (4300288)

Upon installing SEP [Symantec End Point Protection] , some other AV [Anti Virus] or another sort of applicaiton or utiliy, the Kace taskengine may report a return value of 1, which indicates an error or failure of some sort. However, this does not indicate a valid error or failure, since the application installed successfully, i.e. in other words, upon further research [for example, by checking the install.log], it seems that code 1 signifies that SEP installed without any problems, but requires a reboot or virus definition update.

For an example, see:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/mdt-reports-return-code-1-symantec-endpoint-protection-x86-install

To resolve this issue, create a bat file to run the installer and then as the last line include:

*Since the installer is running from a bat file, start /wait should be used in the bat file to run the installer.

Then .zip the bat file and the installer together and upload to the KACE SDA as an application task.

Since the task engine is running the bat file and it exits with error code 0, success will be reported.