VC++ 2015 Redistributable on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 server prerequisite

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_{Thursday, July 7, 2016 2:03 PM}

All,

I'm trying to make VC++ 2015 Redistributable property install on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 server.

It looks like some updates are required for it to work on these operation systems.

I couldn't find anywhere what are the prerequisites for installing it on these operation systems.

Currently, what happens is that when I install VC++ 2015 Redistributable on these operation systems, apparently, it is installed successfully, but when I run an application that uses it, the application fails, because some components (DLL's) are missing.

I know that I can run Windows Update and this will probably solve the problem, however, the application I develop is intended to many clients running various operation systems and I want to provide them the minimum required updates.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dudi.

All replies (1)

_{Friday, July 8, 2016 6:01 AM ✅Answered}

Dear Dudi,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Since your OS version is Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 server, and according to the system requirement of Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

The supported OS versions of Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 are the following:

Windows 10, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

So before you install the Visual C++ Redistributable, you should make sure your OS is already upgrade to SP1 as requirement. If not, it maybe leads to some potential issues.

Usually, we recommend customers to install all pending patches under Windows update, in case some pending patches effect the new installation of programs.

Best regards,

Sara

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