Visual Studio 2017 Offline installer

[Delvis]

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone has created an offline installer for VS2017? I realise its old but its what we have to work with.

I can create an offline installer, my issue is adding extras into it when I don't know explicitly what they are...

For example...
Offline installer for VS2017:

vs_enterprise.exe --layout [OfflineFolderPath]offline --lang en-US --includeRecommended --Add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop

~etc. etc.

We've then had separate scripts to do some Python environments i.e.:

. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\shared\Python36_64\Scripts\pip.exe" install pyqt5

This part is fine technically...

However we then ended up doing the below for some further post-install configuration:

".\sdkmanager.bat" "platforms;android-28"

Plus a load more....Essentially I can't figure out if there is a way to pipe all of this information to create an offline installation with all of our files, as configuring this into a seemless installation in SCCM is being to be a right pain, if I can get all of it into an offline folder, it would make the install so much easier.

Happy to give more information!

 

[Delvis]

Wow, no one works in IT Software Deployment here?

 

[Django x2]

No, just no one works with 3 year old visual studio products

 

[Delvis]

No, just no one works with 3 year old visual studio products

True, from recollection the 2019 edition has the same installer arguments.

I'd still be interested to see others install methods that include extras such as Python environments.