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Manfred Wallner
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Ref: Visual Studio 2017 (Professional) Offline Update Layout Is Missing Packages
A while ago I've created a offline install layout for VS2017 Professional (Version 15.5) - this is the base for a couple of dev-hosts at work.
Now we want to upgrade to VS2017 - version 15.8 - so I've createad a 1:1 copy of the existing layout and ran
vs_Professional.exe --layout <path_to_layout>
which ran for a while and updated ?all? packages in the layout.
doing a clean install with this updated layout does work well, however - when using this layout to update one of the hosts that have version 15.5 installed the update procedure fails with exit code "1".
sidenote: VS actually states that it's now 15.8.4 - but it exits with an error code .. so ..?
the command I use for install/update is
(drop the "update" for the clean installation)
vs_Professional.exe update --passive --norestart --wait --productkey $productKey --nocache --noUpdateInstaller --noWeb
using collect.exe there is a state.errors.json file which states that a couple of packages are missing on the layout path...
NOTE: I need to have all required packages available in the offline layout - because some of the PCs do not have internet access (despite we've got the requirement that those vs-setups need to be identical...)
I've tried to reach out to Microsoft Support but didn't hear back from the till now. - anyone else having this issue / was able to solve it?
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A while ago I've created a offline install layout for VS2017 Professional (Version 15.5) - this is the base for a couple of dev-hosts at work.
Now we want to upgrade to VS2017 - version 15.8 - so I've createad a 1:1 copy of the existing layout and ran
vs_Professional.exe --layout <path_to_layout>
which ran for a while and updated ?all? packages in the layout.
doing a clean install with this updated layout does work well, however - when using this layout to update one of the hosts that have version 15.5 installed the update procedure fails with exit code "1".
sidenote: VS actually states that it's now 15.8.4 - but it exits with an error code .. so ..?
the command I use for install/update is
(drop the "update" for the clean installation)
vs_Professional.exe update --passive --norestart --wait --productkey $productKey --nocache --noUpdateInstaller --noWeb
using collect.exe there is a state.errors.json file which states that a couple of packages are missing on the layout path...
NOTE: I need to have all required packages available in the offline layout - because some of the PCs do not have internet access (despite we've got the requirement that those vs-setups need to be identical...)
I've tried to reach out to Microsoft Support but didn't hear back from the till now. - anyone else having this issue / was able to solve it?
Continue reading...