Visual Studio 2017 Professional Offline Installer [new]

: Lock your team to a specific update version of Visual Studio 2017 to ensure consistency across the project. Prerequisites and System Requirements

This happens if your offline layout is old (e.g., created in 2019 without updates) and the system clock is incorrect. Synchronize your system clock or re-create the layout with the --fix parameter. visual studio 2017 professional offline installer

vs_professional.exe --layout C:\VS2017Layout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure --lang en-US : Lock your team to a specific update

DevOps engineers often need to spin up build agents quickly. Relying on a web download every time a new build agent is provisioned is inefficient. An offline cache ensures that build servers can be configured rapidly and consistently. visual studio 2017 professional offline installer

For enterprise IT departments, the offline layout can be pushed via System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Group Policy.