Please Note: When you create your Visual Studio .Net Package and distribute, you may receive 1603 Errors when deploying the package indicating failure although the deployment is successful. Thi… Read More

Addition to the post from Minkus above: If you want a full install of the MSDN documentation, just use "ADDLOCAL=ALL". No need to list up every single component. At least it works here :)... Read More

I have tried to deploy VS.Net using some of the information above, and discovered 2 minor tricks in the process: 1: It is possible to install MSDN, without a transform. MSDN.MSI SETUP_EXE=yes … Read More

I have tried to deploy VS.Net using some of the information above, and discovered 2 minor tricks in the process: 1: It is possible to install MSDN, without a transform. MSDN.MSI SETUP_EXE=yes … Read More

Making Visual Studio .NET 2003 Active Directory Distribution Friendly These notes are in addition to 'cwowings' notes above. Tested under Windows XP only. There are a few changes for the new v… Read More

When using SMS to install VS 7, take care on how you share the vs.ini file out. If you do not give the correct permissions the installer will fail with an incorrect .ini message. Otherwise you … Read More

Please note that there is a white paper published that describes how to configure Group Policy objects and deploy Visual Studio .NET 2003 using Active Directory. You can find this information … Read More

MAKING WCU AND VISUAL STUDIO .NET ACTIVE DIRECTORY DISTRIBUTION FRIENDLY The information provided in the solution is provided as a general method for configuring the Windows Component Update an… Read More

MAKING WCU AND VISUAL STUDIO .NET ACTIVE DIRECTORY DISTRIBUTION FRIENDLY The information provided in the solution is provided as a general method for configuring the Windows Component Update an… Read More

Run the following command at a command prompt to create the unattend file for the Visual Studio .NET installation c:\ vs7\vs\setup\setup.exe /createunattend c:\vs.ini /no_bsln_check For mor… Read More