Visual Studio 2008 Express Deploying

[riverphoenix12]

Hi all,

 

Wondered if anyone could help.

 

We need Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition for our GCSE and A-Level courses. The Express edition is free. The problem is we have 200 computers to put it on. We cannot seem to deploy it - it just fails to install.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can get around this.

 

Thanks.

[Dos_Box]

This any help?

 

Deploying Visual Studio 2008 Express via Microsoft Deployment | Personal website of Dave Hope

[riverphoenix12]

Yes tried that, and info found A simpler way to silently install Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions (with a caveat) - Aaron Stebner's WebLog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Just get errors throwing.

[kmount]

Which errors.

[riverphoenix12]

Extracting the msi, even from a fresh download.

[kmount]

What options are you using to do it?

[riverphoenix12]

I managed to get the MSI extracted using:

 

ixpvb.exe /q:a /c: "msiexec /i vs_setup.msi VSEXTUI=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress /qn"

 

With the MSI I get the error that it must be run from setup. Screenshot of files and error attached.