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Contoso.se

Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Azure infrastructure and system management. I am a senior engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure Engineering, at Microsoft.  Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

Everything you read here is my own personal opinion and any code is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties.



MVP awarded 2007,2008,2009,2010

My Books

Service Manager Unleashed


Orchestrator 2012 Unleashed


Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Installing the Service Manager Authoring Tool

Today I tried to install the Service Manager Authoring Tool on a couple of different machines. The pre-req check always said that Microsoft Visual Studio Shell 2008 was not installed, but I was sure I did install it. I followed the download link in the Authroing Tool setup and downloaded vs_AppEnvRedistand then I ran that file. After a while I read on this blog about an unsupported modification to skip that pre-check. If I did that unsupported modification the pre-req check did not complain about Visual Studio Shell anymore, but the installation wizard crashed during installation. I then found out that just downloading Visual Studio Shell (vs_AppEnvRedist) and run it did not install it, only extract it to in my example D:\VS 2008 Shell Redist. What we need to do is to browse to that folder and run vs_shell_isolated.enu which actually installed the Visual Studio Shell. After that I could pass both the pre-req check finish eh installation successfully.

20140206 SCSM AuthTool 02

20140206 SCSM AuthTool 01


2 Comments

  1. Tack för hjälpen Anders, dåligt att den första (extraherande) delen säger Install.
    Dåligt Microsoft, dåligt!

    Authoring Tool installerat!

  2. Hi,

    I found a second one somewhere.
    Just started the SP1 install wizard and deployed the prereq from it.
    Afterwards it passed the check and installed fine.

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