Maybe you could try the win_chocolatey. It has a VS2017 package
- name: install VS2017
win_chocolatey:
name: visualstudio2017enterprise
package_params: "--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop"
state: present
I have not tested this. But maybe this is more stable than the
Thank you Jordan! I just tried the suggestion and it works great! I agree,
the installer is terrible to begin with. I initially wanted to do a
chocolatey package but it was overwhelmingly even more complex too learn
for this type of installer. I really appreciate your help and test
On Thu, Feb
I found some time to play around with this a bit more. It turns out the
initial installer spawns multiple processes and doesn't actually wait until
it is finished. This causes the parent WinRM process to close it's shell
which has the side affect of killing any children it spawns.
It's weird be
Just a few things to note, you don't need to set the task directory become,
become_method, become_user if you have set the vars as well. Variable >
than task directives when it comes to precedence.
If the initial exe is then starting up another executable and exits
immediately it makes sense th
