diff --git a/client/pom.xml b/client/pom.xml
index a77c70bd3d8..b3d857dc222 100644
--- a/client/pom.xml
+++ b/client/pom.xml
@@ -728,6 +728,7 @@
                       <get src="http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.73-winx64.msi" dest="target" verbose="false" usetimestamp="true"/>
                       <get src="http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.39.exe" dest="target" verbose="false" usetimestamp="true"/>
                       <get src="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cdrtoolswin/1.0/Binaries/CDR-Tools.exe?r=&amp;ts=1398764640&amp;use_mirror=kaz" dest="target" verbose="false" usetimestamp="true"/>
+                      <get src="https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py" dest="target" verbose="false" usetimestamp="true"/>
                     </target>
                   </configuration>
                  </execution>
diff --git a/scripts/installer/windows/acs.wxs b/scripts/installer/windows/acs.wxs
index 1c100e80969..411d026f596 100644
--- a/scripts/installer/windows/acs.wxs
+++ b/scripts/installer/windows/acs.wxs
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@
                 Permanent="yes" System="yes" Part="last"
                 Value="[JAVA_HOME]\bin;[PYTHON_HOME];[SEVENZ_HOME];[ProgramFilesFolder]\cdrtools" />
             </Component>
+            <Component Id='setuptools' Guid='019a51dd-7fc4-4d6c-9277-13cc7b600789'>
+              <File Id="ez_setup" Source="ez_setup.py" />
+            </Component>
           </Directory>
         </Directory>
       </Directory>
@@ -242,6 +245,9 @@
     <CustomAction Id="DeleteFiles" Directory='CSMANAGEMENT'
       ExeCommand='[SystemFolder]cmd.exe /c del "[CSMANAGEMENT]\webapps\client\WEB-INF\classes\db.properties" "[CSMANAGEMENT]\webapps\client\WEB-INF\classes\log4j*.xml"'
       Execute="commit" Return="check" />
+    <CustomAction Id="SetuptoolsInstallation" Directory='INSTALLDIR'
+      ExeCommand='[PYTHON_HOME]\python "[INSTALLDIR]\ez_setup.py"'
+      Execute="commit" Return="check" />
     <CustomAction Id="GenerateSSLKey" Directory='CSMANAGEMENT'
       ExeCommand='[PYTHON_HOME]\python "[CSMANAGEMENT]\webapps\client\WEB-INF\classes\scripts\common\keys\ssl-keys.py" "[CSMANAGEMENT]\lib"'
       Execute="commit" Return="check" />
@@ -259,7 +265,8 @@
       </Custom>
       <Custom Action="UpdateTomcatCatalinaBase" Before="DeleteFiles">NOT
         Installed</Custom>
-      <Custom Action="DeleteFiles" Before="GenerateSSLKey">NOT Installed</Custom>
+      <Custom Action="DeleteFiles" Before="SetuptoolsInstallation">NOT Installed</Custom>
+      <Custom Action="SetuptoolsInstallation" Before="GenerateSSLKey">NOT Installed</Custom>
       <Custom Action="GenerateSSLKey" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed
       </Custom>
       <Custom Action="CopySitePackages" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom>
@@ -284,6 +291,7 @@
         <ComponentRef Id='copyToConf' />
         <ComponentRef Id='firewallRules' />
         <ComponentRef Id='MainExecutable' />
+        <ComponentRef Id='setuptools' />
         <ComponentRef Id='ServiceInstaller' />
       </Feature>
     </Feature>