At this point you may ask yourself “ Why not create my own slip-streamed install?” but unfortunately this would put you in an unsupported state due to package changes as mentioned in the blog post SharePoint 2013, SP1 and Slipstreaming. Quite (un)helpfully Microsoft do not provide a slip-streamed Evaluation Edition of SharePoint 2013 -and as far as I know never provide slip-streamed Evaluation Edition images apart from exceptional circumstances. However there will be many of you who do not have access to a MSDN subscription and may be using Microsoft Evaluation Editions for your test lab. Using this media would avoid the problems documented within this post. No big deal right?īefore I start delving into the problem and solution, it is important for me to highlight that it is possible to download a Microsoft provided slip-streamed iso of SharePoint 2013 with SP1 assuming you have access to a lovely MSDN subscription. Anyhow, I gathered that I could install SharePoint 2013 onto Windows 2012 R2 and then patch up to SharePoint 2013 SP1. Prior to SharePoint 2013 SP1, Windows 2012 R2 is not supported and I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone since SharePoint 2013 came onto the market before Windows 2012 R2.
The Problem with SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012 R2 Working along the lines of current is probably best, I decided that Windows 2012 R2 was probably the right choice of OS going forward. I recently had a requirement to deploy SharePoint 2013 and at very least expected a relatively easy installation.
Ask any idiot to install a SQL Server instance and create a database and there is a good chance that they will succeed, but ask them to install SQL Server correctly and configured to best practice, suddenly the knowledge gap becomes a little more obvious. Installing Microsoft Backoffice products on Microsoft Operating Systems has over the years become a much easier proposition and is largely the reason why SQL Server got the reputation of being “easy”.
If you find this post useful or have any feedback then please leave me a comment so that I know my efforts were not wasted! If you want to jump straight to the condensed solution, then please feel free to go to the Condensed Installation instructions below.
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