On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 06:24:38 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
It has nothing to do with lazyness. If you're behind a proxy
that abomination of a installer of Visual Studio doesn't work.
I tried several times, offline and online setup, read the
Studio forums. Studio 2017 installer doesn't work inside our
environment at work (EU Commission). Might be an issue with our
infrastructure but it's unlikely as I managed to install a lot
of things before.
There are many good reasons why certain organisations might block
the installation of Visual Studio (and not just due to its
ridiculous size).
It's a monster of a (potential) threat vector, when you really
think about it.
If I were managing that organisation, I'd be blocking it too ;-)
(admins can deploy internally of course, but should do so only
after a detailed risk analysis).
