
For more information, see the Support options for Enterprise and Professional customers section of the Visual Studio product lifecycle and servicing page. If your company needs to stay on a feature set longer but still wants to get regular servicing security updates, you should plan to use a long-term servicing channel (LTSC).Below lists some of the key things to think about, and it's best if your plan and decisions are made before the original installation happens on the client machine. You will need to make a plan for how you deploy Visual Studio across your organization. This administrator guide provides quick links to scenario-based guidance for enterprise deployment.

Visual Studio provides the ability to create and maintain acquisition locations, pre-configure installation defaults, deploy product keys during the installation process, and manage product updates after a successful rollout. Visual Studio can be acquired from the internet, from a network share, or from a product cache, and it can be deployed and updated manually, programatically or by using systems management software. The Visual Studio product integrates well in these types of environments by giving system administrators the ability to manage and control when and how the Visual Studio software is deployed and updated. In enterprise environments, system administrators typically deploy and update software on end users machines. Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code
