Maintain the layout: information on how to best update the layout's product version, or modify the layout's product content, channel settings, installer version, and folder size.

Create the layout: describes how to create the layout with the correct product content, how to configure the client's default settings, how to store it on a network file share, and how to make it available if you want to host it on a webserver on your intranet.

The information on this page is grouped up into three main sections:

The layout serves as the source location for all Visual Studio files needed for both initial client installation and subsequent updates.

We've designed Visual Studio so that an administrator can both create and maintain a 'layout', a private cache of Visual Studio files, that can be stored on an internal network share and, if desired, be made available on an organization's intranet. Creating a private installation point is useful for situations where a user may have limited permissions, where the client machines may have limited access to the internet, or when an organization wants to standardize on a particular version of the developer toolset. Sometimes an enterprise administrator wants to create a private installation point that contains Visual Studio files that can be deployed to client machines within an organization.

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

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