Add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM for Visual Studio 2019 in Windows Server 2019

[allexzander]

Tool information

• Tool name: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM
• Add
• Desired version:
• Approximate size:
• If this is an add request:
  • Brief description of tool: Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 individual component "Redist MSM"
  • URL for tool's homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-component-id-vs-build-tools?view=vs-2019

Area for Triage: C/C++
Question, Bug, or Feature?: Feature

Virtual environments affected

• macOS 10.15
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Windows Server 2016 R2
• Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
Currently, as a workaround, we install this component via the PowerShell, using the following command:
Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe" -ArgumentList 'modify --installPath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise" --quiet --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM' -Wait -PassThru

It takes 10-15 minutes to install, that's why we would like to have it installed in advance to reduce the duration of every build.

Are you willing to submit a PR?
Kindly, add this component name Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM into the VS 2019 installation script here https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/master/images/win/scripts/Installers/Windows2019/Install-VS2019.ps1 into $WorkLoads list. This should do it.

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[alepauly]

@allexzander sorry for the delay in looking at this. Is it still an issue for you?

[allexzander]

@allexzander sorry for the delay in looking at this. Is it still an issue for you?

Hi @alepauly,

We are using a workaround by manually installing this component during the build process. It would be nice to have it added by default into a virtual OS image, so we would save the time spent for the installation for every build.

[alepauly]

Hi @allexzander, we briefly looked into it and considering the size of the component and maintenance concerns, we won't be baking it into the image at this time.

[qminds]

@alepauly And how about now? In fact, the merge modules is a crucial component in many CI/CD builds where an MSI package depends on this type of VC runtime redistribution.

[slonopotamus]

https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/win/Windows2019-Readme.md claims that windows-2019 image contains Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM at least for the past two years.

Note that Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.MSM is missing from windows-2022 image, that is supposed to be fixed in #5143.