We have a software dependency chain that is not completing properly. We are installing SQL Management Studio 2008 R2-->SQL Mgmt Studio SP1-->Visual Studio 2010-->Visual Studio 2010 SP1. SQL Management Studio must install first due to registry errors that otherwise occur when installing SQL with VS already installed.
SQL and SQL SP1 install fine. It then takes at least another full day before the install enforcement begins on VS 2010. After this install the sequence halts again for another day or two and then VS 2010 SP1 installs. We would like this chain of installs to occur directly after each other.
We have the installs set to install whether the user is logged in or not and the software is required. VS SP1 has a dependency of VS 2010, VS 2010 has a dependency of SQL SP1, which has a dependency of SQL Mgmt Studio.
We have set the Software Deployment device setting to "Schedule re-evaluation for deployments" every 2 hours, and the clients policy polling interval is set for every 30 minutes.
If we manually kick off an Application Deployment Evaluation Cycle, it will install just fine.
Any help with streamlining this software install chain would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
