Plesk upgrade fails on installing IIS Rewrite: The installation of the package ‘urlrewrite’ failed with code 1603

Symptoms

Plesk upgrade for Windows fails: 

MSI: Error! An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Management.Rewrite,fileVersion="7.1.761.0",version="7.2.2.001",culture="neutral",publicKeyToken="31BF3856AD364E35",processorArchitecture="MSIL"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F.
 Failed to install 'C:a9f588c2d45cba549bb91b9b7de86ab2parallelsPANEL-WIN_11.5.30 hirdparty-msi-Windows-any-x86_64rewrite_2.0_rtw_x64.msi': Fatal error during installation. (Error code 1603)
 Error: The installation of the package 'urlrewrite' failed with code 1603. (install: installing IIS URL Rewrite Module...)
 Not all packages were installed.
 Please, contact product technical support.

Cause

IIS rewrite module is corrupted.

Resolution

1. Connect to Plesk server via RDP

2. Open Server Manager > Tools > Add Features and Roles and install .Net Framework 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.5 ( but not 4+ ):

   

   Manual installation is available at  this link .

3. Try installing IIS Rewrite module manually (having downloaded the package for Plesk 17.8, or for Plesk 17.5). Consider applying this article if the installation fails.

If the issue still persist, remove and install IIS Rewrite Module using Plesk installer:

C:> plesk installer –console

and reboot the server.