I am trying to install SQL Server Management Studio ver 18.3 on a server running Windows Server 2012, but the installation aborts with the following error message - "Fatal error during installation (0x80070643)", with the follow up instruction of "Microsoft ODBC Driver 2017 for SQL Server: Please install the Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable from https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x64.exe".
However, Visual C++ 2017 is installed on the server.
I then tried to install ODBC Driver 2017 directly with the msi file from MS, but it too aborts with this error message - "Error 1723. Please install the Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable from https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x64.exe before running this installer."
I appear to be caught in a installation loop.
Has anyone come across this before? I appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Herman