In order to avoid causing installation errors, Devolutions does not package the .NET runtime inside Remote Desktop Manager's installer, but rather allows it to download and install the runtime as a prerequisite if needed.
Here are the instructions to follow and the background operations related to the .NET runtime installation:
- The feature is currently only available by appending the
INSTALL_DOTNET_RUNTIME="1"parameter to themsiexeccommand. - Although this does not seem like a problem for InTune or other MDMs, interactive installations can encounter errors when the installer is run without administrator privileges.
- The installation then checks for any compatible version of the .NET 8 Windows Desktop Runtime, and stops looking if it finds one already installed.
- If no compatible runtime is found, an attempt is made to obtain the download link for the latest version from Microsoft. Should this fail, a statically configured version is installed instead.
- The runtime installer is downloaded to a temporary location from Microsoft's CDN and is executed.
Failure to install the runtime does not cause Remote Desktop Manager installation to fail. Furthermore, the runtime installation has a 3 minutes limit preventing hanging the installation for too long in case of a slow network link or other issues related to connectivity.
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