Thanks for the information Edhy!

I did run into problems installing the 2012 versions of the CLR/SMO packages on Windows v8.1 and posted it to the SQL Server forums.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/c55d8104-79aa-44d1-9df1-05416a4ad7ae/sharedmanagementobjectsmsi-wont-install?forum=sqldatabaseengine

The response was the 2012 packages are not Win8.1 compatible. I ran into the same error when attempting to install the 2014 versions too.

Anyhow, the SSMS install is a good work around until the StrataFrame SQLSMOMergeModulel.msm is updated to work w/ SQL 2012.

Bill