OK i managed to solve this issue. I first needed to install the certificates to the local machine either from the certificates folder which is inside the layout folder or by right clicking the setup.exe and then Properties - Digital signatures - click on the item in the list then click Details - view certificate - install certificate - Local machine and then just continue the process with the defaults.

Then once the certificates are installed i then run the .exe as administrator and it works :)

It worked!! All I had to do was install the certificates into the root CA! Something I missed noticing in the VS 2017 docs:

How to install from the offline installation folder

1. Install the certificates (They are in the "certificates" folder, which is in your Layout folder. )

2. Simply right-click each one and choose Install PFX.

3. Specify Local machine (not current user)
4. You can use an empty password
5. Run the installation file. For example, run: c:\vs2017offline\vs_enterprise.exe

--- Microsoft Docs

Edit: Remember to install the certs using the Admin account on the PC, or it won't work...

Hi @Kaleb Ward (External) ,

Thank you for posting your query here.

This is not known issue and i would suggest your to download installer again and try. Before that please uninstall any setup related vs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2019

Run the setup from command prompt so it will enable loggin.

setup.exe --verbose --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor --logFile C:\Logs\vs_install.log

Please let me know if that helps and if it helps please close the thread by acepting this as answer.

Hello @Peter Volz ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

I have verified that the command which you are using is correct.

Is there any detailed error message? There are many reasons which may cause the process to stop.

I suggest first verify that you have enough disk space(C drive) and then try to check the network connection, make sure it’s stable and try to connect to use another network. Make sure that there’s no proxy/rule/policy/antivirus on your machine/network which may block the process from downloading the packages.

Try to use --verify and --fix parameters to see if the error can be fixed(VisualStudioSetup.exe --layout C:\VS.NET --verify --fix).

If above methods don’t work, please download a new VS 2022 Professional setup file from here: Downloads again, save it to a clean folder, run CMD as administrator, change to use a new layout folder and run the command again.

Feel free to let us know the results.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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