This request makes sense for a lot of large enterprises where internet access may be restricted for security considerations. I need this for an internal network installation either via SCCM or wide unattended distribution.' However, if I get the offline copy of SSDT for VS2017 it does not include the Shell copy of VS2017 so the install fails because no Visual Studio 2017 instance is present. Here is a request that came up recently: 'When installing SSDT manually it downloads a shell copy of Visual Studio 2017 from the Internet.
