I had some time last week to get to the root of a recent installation problem. On my work system running Server 2003, the installation package for Visual Studio 2005 SP1 would fail repeatedly. This was the case using either the Microsoft Update or standalone MSI download. Since service packs for Visual Studio are generally a Good Idea, this was a seriously annoying inconvenience – not the least of which was seeing the “one remaining update” icon in the system tray.
In any event, I managed to pick the correct answer out of the Web from Egghead Cafe, which pointed to KB925336 from Microsoft’s site. There are packages for Server 2003 in 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions. Since I know a number of developers run the server OS (through MSDN usually), this seems to be a worthwhile fix.
Note that the package does require a reboot before Service Pack 1 will install properly.
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