
Place the ISOs you downloaded on a network share.Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - ISO:.Download Visual Studio 2008 Professional (x86) - ISO: from the source " ").node = true #keeps the ISOs after installation.

ms_dotnet::ms_dotnet3 (.net 3.5 must be enabled on Windows 8.1/2012 R2).However, it kept crashing on dismount-diskimage of the ISO in order for me to delete it. I tried running mount-diskimage for the ISO (available in Windows 8.1/2012 R2 or newer) to save time from the unzip proces. The ISOs are immediately deleted after a successful run. This takes about 35 minutes to run on my machine since it downloads the ISO, unzips it to a local path and then runs the install. Our purpose was to run server configuration automation inside a corporate firewall with no internet connection for security reason. I added a registry key to disable the Windows compatibility popup for SQL 2005 install since it is not supported on Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2. However, it launches fine if we don't use an INI file and use the "/full" option. No Documentation is installed.įor some reason, the custom INI file for the silent install fails to launch on Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 due to dependencies. The "/full" option used here would enable 64-bit compile to install. The default Visual Studio 2008 installer does not enable the 64-bit C++ compiler installation. This includes all features of Visual Studio 2008 including the 64-bit C++ compiler. Installs and configures Visual Studio 2008 + SP1.
