title: vs shell installation has failed with exit code 1638
body: <p>I have received the following error while installing MSSQL 2017 on Windows 2012 R2.</p>
  
  <pre><code>vs shell installation has failed with exit code 1638
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/g87vY.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/g87vY.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>