install Visual Studio Professional intune

Copper Contributor

There appears to be several ways to deploy Visual Studio via Intune, found online. Unfortunately, the Visual Studio installation is not straightforward since it still requires an absolute reference path to the Configuration file. I'm sure Microsoft is aware of the issue since there are dozens for forums expressing this problem. While scripts are a great tool, I always prefer to keep my Intune application installations as clean and repurposable as possible. I opted for using the simple %CD% variable to identify the installation's current directory for install, remember to quote the path in case the expanded path contains spaces. Intune downloads the payload to an unpredictable location and the command simply returns its own current path for the Configuration file.

Install Command: cmd.exe /c VisualStudioSetup.exe --config "%CD%\2022.vsconfig" --downloadThenInstall --quiet --wait

Uninstall Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe" /uninstall /quiet

Detection Rules*:

Rule Type: File

Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022

File or Folder: Professional

Detection Method: File or folder exists

*You can be as specific as you'd like here. Above simply checks for a folder (which could be empty, so not a great determination if software is installed), however it was simple for us since our developers have multiple editions of Visual Studio installed in parallel. Others may want to detect the executable or even the executables version string.

Best of Luck!

RickGroom

Copper Contributor

Sep 28, 2024

andrewbailey375

When you package the IntuneWin, make sure the installer and configuration files are together. You can name them anything you want, as long as you call them by the same names in your install command.

You can generate the configuration file using the Export Installation Configuration option of the Visual Studio Installer. This will allow you to customize the installation settings and components that will be installed. Import or export installation configurations | Microsoft Learn

Here is mine to copy if you'd like, it includes all of the components requested from our developers. **It never did install the extensions, but I haven't had a chance to fix that yet.

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "components": [
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor",
    "Microsoft.Net.Component.4.8.SDK",
    "Microsoft.Net.Component.4.7.2.TargetingPack",
    "Microsoft.Net.ComponentGroup.DevelopmentPrerequisites",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TypeScript.TSServer",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.WebToolsExtensions",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.JavaScript.TypeScript",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.JavaScript.Diagnostics",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler",
    "Microsoft.Component.MSBuild",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.LanguageServices",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating",
    "Component.Microsoft.VisualStudio.RazorExtension",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.IISExpress",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.NuGet",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.MSODBC.SQL",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.LocalDB.Runtime",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Common.Azure.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.CLR",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.MSSQL.CMDLnUtils",
    "Microsoft.Component.ClickOnce",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.ManagedDesktop.Core",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.SSDT",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.DataSources",
    "Component.Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager",
    "Component.Microsoft.WebTools.BrowserLink.WebLivePreview",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Web",
    "Microsoft.NetCore.Component.Runtime.8.0",
    "Microsoft.NetCore.Component.SDK",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.FSharp",
    "Microsoft.ComponentGroup.ClickOnce.Publish",
    "Microsoft.NetCore.Component.DevelopmentTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.FSharp.WebTemplates",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.DockerTools",
    "Microsoft.NetCore.Component.Web",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.WebDeploy",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.AppInsights.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Web",
    "Microsoft.Net.Component.4.8.TargetingPack",
    "Microsoft.Net.ComponentGroup.4.8.DeveloperTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.AspNet45",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.AspNet",
    "Component.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.AzureFunctions",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.AzureFunctions",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Web.CloudTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.DiagnosticTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.EntityFramework",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Debugger.JustInTime",
    "Component.Microsoft.VisualStudio.LiveShare.2022",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.WslDebugging",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.IntelliCode",
    "Component.GitHub.Copilot",
    "Microsoft.NetCore.Component.Runtime.6.0",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TeamsFx",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.AdditionalWebProjectTemplates",
    "microsoft.net.runtime.mono.tooling",
    "microsoft.net.sdk.emscripten",
    "wasm.tools",
    "Microsoft.Net.Component.4.8.1.SDK",
    "Microsoft.Net.Component.4.8.1.TargetingPack",
    "Microsoft.Net.ComponentGroup.4.8.1.DeveloperTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.ClientLibs",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.Prerequisites",
    "Microsoft.Component.Azure.DataLake.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.ResourceManager.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.ResourceManager.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.AuthoringTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.Waverton.BuildTools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.Compute.Emulator",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.Waverton",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.CloudServices",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.ServiceFabric.Tools",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.Powershell",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Data"
  ],
  "extensions": [
    "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ProBITools.MicrosoftReportProjectsforVisualStudio2022&ssr"
  ]
}

Sidenote: If you have Intune Suite licenses, Visual Studio 2022 Professional is prepackaged as a Microsoft managed Enterprise Catalog App. Microsoft Intune Enterprise Application Management | Microsoft Learn.

andrewbailey375
Copper Contributor
Sep 30, 2024
Hi Rick, thanks for your response.

I have got the config file and installer in the same location, our devs only want .net along with it.

We are going to use the community edition, do you think this would cause any issues?

I'm going to remove my first attempt and start again now I have a better understanding. Thanks for the help so far!

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