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Using command line to silently upgrade just the installer in Visual Studio 2017 (15.2)

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:29 PM

Hello,

We've been deploying this version via SCCM and it's working fine.  However we had to quickly upgrade from 15.2 to 15.3 to try to fix a non-admin issue under windows 7.   What I'm finding is the first thing it wants to do is upgrade the installer located in the folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer

before being able to actually use it to update/add/modify any of the actual VS 2017 (15.2) product.  Once it's upgraded, the silent installers work like a charm.  My issue is, there is no way that I can see to do that initial upgrade of the installer without actually using the GUI, which is not feasible when we're talking 100+ computers.

There is a new switch --noUpdateInstaller but in this case it looks like a update of the installer is required and therefore will not continue according to the switch's description.

Is there any way to get just the installer to upgrade itself in a silent manner?

Thanks,
Guy

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 6:07 AM âś…Answered

Hi Guy,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

Usually, Update Visual Studio 2017 to the most recent release explains the two ways of updating VS.

>>Is there any way to get just the installer to upgrade itself in a silent manner?

Giving that you need a silent update VS installer for more than 100 computers, please refer to

Update a network-based installation of Visual Studio :

Administrators can update client deployments of Visual Studio without any user interaction with two separate commands:

  • First, update the Visual Studio installer:
    vs_enterprise.exe --quiet --update

  • Then, update the Visual Studio application itself:
    vs_enterprise.exe update --installPath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise" --quiet --wait --norestart

See also:

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