SharePoint 2013 Preview Deployment - Failed to create the configuration database

On deploying 2013 on SQL Server 2012, you might get an error when running the configuration wizard to create the SharePoint farm:

“Configuration Failed.”

“Failed to create the configuration database”

“An exception was thrown: This SQL Server instance does not have the required “maxdegree of parallelism” setting of 1”

 

This can be resolved as follows:

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio
2. Right Click on your SQL instance and select Properties
3. Select “Advanced” and change “Max Degree of Parallelism” from 0 to 1

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 25, 2013
  Did not work for me: My "max degree of parallelism" was already set at "1".

• Anonymous
  September 12, 2013
  Didnt work for me either. Same as mel, it was already set to 1

• Anonymous
  October 17, 2013
  not for me also.i have set it to one,same error

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2014
  It dosen't work on 2014 sql server.