VS17 Installation: Bootstrapper has stopped working

Question

I recently created a windows server on Windows Server 2008 operating system. Once I had done that I tried to install Visual Studio 2017, I have tried all versions including community professional and enterprise. All of them show the same error as soon as I run the setup for each one as the image I have posted below.

screenshot can be viewed here

Problem details:

Description:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe
  Application Version:  15.0.293.51136
  Application Timestamp:    588935a6
  Fault Module Name:    KERNELBASE.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ce7c78c
  Exception Code:   e0434f4d
  Exception Offset: 000000000000a49d
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.1296.17
  Locale ID:    1033

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Answer 1

Windows Server 2008 is not supported by VS2017