

If you have multiple editions of Visual Studio in use within your enterprise (for example, Visual Studio 2022 Professional and Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise), you must create a separate layout for each edition.

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
