Trouble installing EPiServer Mail

When installing EPiServer Mail 4.4 SP1 my Deployment Center gave the error message "Invalid character in the given encoding", stopped and rolled back.

A colleague had noticed problems with ÅÄÖ-characters being messed up in his config after he had installed a previous EPiServer Mail version. After editing my web.config and also making sure to not type any ÅÄÖ's or other weird characters in the setup inputs installation completed successfully.

Bugs like this one would be less painful if the Deployment Center could remember the input values of a rolled back attempt.

To avoid another rollback if you're creating a new database, also make sure the user you type in the installer SQL user textboxes is powerful enough.

Categories: EPiServer, Troubleshooting