Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installation Still Wants Internet Connection

Question

I created an offline layout folder using the following command:

vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\vs2017layout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --add Component.GitHub.VisualStudio --includeOptional --lang en-US

I then copied the entire resulted vs2017layout folder (~2.57GB) to another machine that does not have internet access and ran the following command:

vs_enterprise.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --add Component.GitHub.VisualStudio --includeOptional --lang en-US

However, the installer still wants internet connection. Please advise on what I'm missing.

Thank you in advance.

user_645321 · Answer

Turns out I need to manually import the certificates that were downloaded to the offline folder on the machine.

Found this info from this blog post: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2016/11/visual-studio-2017-offline-installer.html#C3t0q0XUUVqgvqyy.97

user_462376 · Answer

Please run https://aka.ms/vscollect.exe and upload your logs to a new issue on https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com. Logs will then only be available for you and us to see and diagnose.

user_3908409 · Answer

I also had this kind of problem. However I managed to solve it by installing Visual Studio in online computer from downloaded Layout, waiting for installation to complete, then copy the Download Cache (by default located in %programdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages) into existing Layout.

This way some missing packages also get included and hopefully the layout installer no longer require internet for next offline installations.

Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installation Still Wants Internet Connection

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