New Deployment

[garethEds]

Good mornigng all,

 

I'm looking at our deployment again as we move to Windows 11. Our application deployment is handled by PDQDeploy so I have quite a few different ones. However, I'm wondering.... does a computer need all the Visual C++ libraries or to they supercede each other?

 

For example I have the following:

 

2010 Runtime SP1 10.0.40219.325

2012 Runtime 11.0.61030

2013 Runtime Update 5

2015 - 2022 Runtime 14.36.32532.0

 

Edit Again: I see PDQ have stopped with the 2010 - 2013 runtimes. Only the 2015-2022 is there for use. So does this mean I can ditch the first lot?

 

The same with .NET. I have

 

3.5.1

4.5.2

4.8

 

Do I need to deploy them all? Just seen .NET 4.8.1, 6 and 7 Frameworks - should they be deployed?

 

WHat do you guys do?

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

Edited October 25, 2023 by garethedmondson

[CHiLL]

Best practise would state that you should only deploy the versions you need, though that often doesn't happen in the real world.

 

Not all VC++ Redistributables supercede each other. We are deploying:

 

2005 SP1 x86

2005 SP1 x64

2008 SP1 x86

2008 SP1 x64

2010 SP1 x86

2010 SP1 x64

2012 x86

2012 x64

2013 x86

2013 x64

2015 - 2022 x86

2015 - 2022 x64

 

It is annoying that on x64 machines, you also need the x86 version for 32-bit apps using VC running on 64-bit systems.

 

As for .NET, I believe the major versions supersede each other. We no longer deploy 3.5 unless it's required by a specific app (which we have linked as a dependant application in SCCM, which installs it automatically if specified in the other app deployment). I think 4.8 has been included in Windows since Windows 10 and it also superseded 4.5, though I could be wrong.

[bknaggs]

.Net 3.x, 4.x are both different and need to be installed separately if applicartions need one of them.

 

5.x, 6.x and 7.x I thought were meant to be backwards compatible but I've seen something want 5 installing even though 6 was available. I can't remember which application it was and things might have changed for the better now.

 

I have also seen some application installers increase in size as the runtime has been included in the installer rather than rely on it being installed separately which is a new thing for me since 5.x runtime was released.