jrudd

This was a problem for us as well and caused our 1300+ machines to become new machines and have to be placed in all of their groups and locations again as well but even worse is that because it counted them as a new machine the licensing went crazy and went over causing all of our users to get popups of needing to Renew or Uninstall Kaspersky Security and then once that was fixed by clearing out the original entries in the Admin center and then even at that, once users licensing cleared again it made them accept the terms for KSN…

You can pause it by stopping the service or installing the management console and stopping it there. I am interested to see what you find as I am seeing the same issue on 2016 Servers and being unable to install them with the new Server 11 security. I tried uninstalling Kaspersky even though and am still unable to install them since updating.