
(FYI i've also posed this same question on the SCCM technet forum here) It would also be good to see any official documentation or statements that address this topic. It would be great to hear anyone else's experience and what you do, Using this example, what would happen if i only have installed "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4", but then find out a certain application we use has been developed with the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" in mind ? Will that mean that this application will not function correctly ? Or will the Update 4 version be sufficient and allow software created with an earlier sub-version of the same major Visual Studio version to run ?įor another example, lets say the "Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable", is it also required to have the original Visual C++ 2010 (non-SP1) Redistributable intalled, to support applications created with the non-SP1 Visual Studio ? So, is it necessary to have all 4 of these versions installed ? I know that they have to be installed in order, else if you try and install a newer one and then go back and install an older one, it will present an error saying a newer version is already installed. Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 What i would like to know is, are multiple sub-versions of the same major version really required ? For instance, there are 4 versions of the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012", listed below for clarification: I understand that many of them will not be needed by the majority of users/applications, however i include them anyway since they provide consistency across the whole platform and we have a pretty diverse application spread which changes frequently enough. Presently, when i create either a Windows 10 VDI SOE, or a Windows Server 2016/2019 SOE for RDS/Citrix, I include almost all of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages from 2005 up to 2019. My question is around the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable applications/packages.
