Visual C++ Redistributables

[SuperduperPackager]

Looking to optimize my Windows 10 deployment and I came accross the subject of Visual C++ Redistributables.

 

For Windows 7, we are installing 2008SP1, 2010SP1, 2012U4, 2013 and 2015 so far in both x86 and x64 versions.

 

Regarding Windows 10, only 2015 and above seems to be officially supported.

 

So I was wondering if you guys were still installing the older versions on Windows 10 anyway even though they aren't supported or if you only install 2015 and above.

 

Thanks

 

For reference: https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/de5d9b756bd11b77db8bf4253bed8b3e

[Arthur]

I install all of them (2005-2017) using this script...

 

https://github.com/aaronparker/Install-VisualCRedistributables (Related Article)

 

Deploying the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables in any complex desktop environment kinda sucks because there are so many versions that might be required. I got tired of updating my MDT deployment share with the redistributables manually, so wrote a script to automate the process.

 

This script will download the Visual C++ Redistributables listed in an external XML file into a folder structure that represents major release, processor architecture and update release (e.g. SP1, MFC, ATL etc.). The script defines the available redistributables and can be updated with each release with no changes made to the script.

 

Here is an example of the end result with the Redistributables installed. Note that 2015 and 2017 are the same major version (14.x), so once 2017 is installed, 2015 will not be displayed in the programs list.

 

 

So I was wondering if you guys were still installing the older versions on Windows 10 anyway even though they aren't supported or if you only install 2015 and above.

Unfortunately I have some old educational software that requires the 2005 redists so still install that on Windows 10.

 

2008-2017 are currently supported by Microsoft...

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Edited August 22, 2017 by Arthur

[sparkeh]

Yeah I install what is required so we have a fair few versions knocking about.

[free780]

I stopped adding them to the image. Most software will install them if they are required.

[gshaw]

I stopped adding them to the image. Most software will install them if they are required.

Same here, we push them down on a per-application basis via our systems management tool (ZENWorks)

[Geoff]

I have mine in as dependences in SCCM. So they get pulled in during application deployment.