Solr Install Location Issue

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Description

With Ektron 9.3 SP2, Solr was updated to 7.4. As part of the Solr update the install directory folder was moved to <rootdrive>\Solr. 

For instance, if you pick the install directory as "D:\Program Files (x86)\", a Solr directory will be placed at D:\Solr.

Steps

This is due to an issue in Solr 7 where Solr cannot start when the execute path contains parentheses like "C:\Program Files (x86)\":
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11611

There is currently no workaround and this should be fixed in a later version of Ektron's Solr. This KB will be updated with the details.