SharePoint Subscription Edition v. 23H1 Offline Prerequisite Installation
Microsoft has simplified installing SharePoint On-Prem in Server Subscription Edition (SE), which is a great improvement. In March 2023, the SE version 23H1 was released after being recompiled with the Visual C++ 2022 compiler , so the Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2015-2022 has become a prerequisite for installing SE since then. Recently I had to install the version 23H1 offline, so I pre-downloaded the Visual C++ Redistributable and the latest CU for slipstreaming. That process exposed a bit of SharePoint pain. Two things: 1. (minor) The Redistributable file name is the same between the old and new packages. Both packages have the file name VC_redist.x64.exe , which makes it easy to download or stash the wrong version by accident: New (post-23H1): Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) , https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2224881 Old (pre-23H1): Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2019 , https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?...