Install SharePoint 2013 Offline on Windows Server 2012 R2
To Install SharePoint offline over windows server 2012 R2:
- Adjust security permission for setup account (local admin on SharePoint server, dbcreator and securityadmin SQL roles on the SQL instance)
- On SQL server make sure to set Max degree of parallelism to 1
- On the servers add required server roles and features
ROLES:
Application Server
Web Server (IIS)
EDIT: IIS 6 Management Console (h/t Darma)
FEATURES:
ASP.NET 4.5
Windows Identity Foundation 3.5
Powershell: Install-WindowsFeature -Name AS-NET-Framework,Web-WebServer,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Windows-Identity-Foundation -IncludeManagementTools
Download and Install the prerequisites as following:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client.
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64).
Microsoft Identity Extensions.
Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client.
Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
- Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6 (note the file name is the same as the one from previous step, if downloading to install later, don't overwrite - save with a different name)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=39373
- Restart.
- Windows Server AppFabric
Download it from here then don't run it from the setup file, use the following command (run it from command window)
prerequisiteInstaller.exe /appfabric:C:\SP2013\PreSharePoint2013\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe
- Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB2671763)
- Restart.
- Start the SharePoint server Installation.