Hi folks;
We've been using VS 2012 for about 4 years now. Recently however, the enterprise placed a Host Intrusion Protection System onto the machines we use. This HIPS causes use to get a HIPS error each time we try to install any Visual Studio 2012 updates on any of these machines. They recently applied for an exception for Visual Studio 2015 so we are able to install Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise version D14REL.
Seeing the updates which were available for VS 2015 we attempted to install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. We first tried it on my old machine where we first had success installing VS 2015 Ent. D14REL. We were able to do this by going into Add/Remove Programs selecting VS 2015 Ent, selecting "change" and Selecting modify. Upon doing so we were given the option for selecting Update 3 in the install wizard. This worked fine and my old machine has VS 2015 Ent Update 3. Then another user got a download from the Microsoft site for Update 3. When He tried to install using an install disk created by the downloaded iso, at first his VS2015 was corrupted. Then he did a repair (again selecting update 3 from the components to be installed list.) This resulted in him having Update 3 installed. I tried to use the same disk on my new machine. However, the machine reported it did not see any disk in the DVD-RW disk drive. So we copied it onto a folder in the C:\ drive . We ran the installer Wizard. The wizard went through the acquiring all the necessary files quite rapidly. The it started doing Visual Studio 2015 preparation. As soon as this step completed it reported "Set up complete", and went to the end of the set up process. However, the about dialog on VS 2015 reported it was still at D14 REL. I tried doing a repair like the other guy. It just went to "Setup complete" in a short period of time after running "VS 2015 preparations" I tried doing a repair from Add/Remove Programs. Same behavior. I tried logging onto the machine with an administrator user, and running the install "as administrator". No difference. There are no HIPS errors, There are no logged errors reported. It just refuses to install.
It is mandated that I switch to this new machine in as short of time possible, but I can not do so until I can put the current Update of Visual Studio on the machine because it is a violation to operate any software that doesn't meet the security standards that were implemented in Update 3.
It is not clear to me why this update won't install on this one machine. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
