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（Please help!!) SharePoint 2016 Products Configuration Wizard Installation Error
MicrosoftKun...a few things to check:
- The service account that you're using to do the setup should be a local admin on the SharePoint servers.
- Double check the access to SQL.
- Are there any events in the Event Viewer that help?
- The config wizard also generates a log file. Look in that for events leading up to the failure.
If you have additional detailed error messages from these sources please post them.
HTH...Steve
Thanks Steve!
Here is the detail error message in the log file, and that user account is a local administrator.
I wonder if that user account needs domain administrator permission? The account I am using now is just a domain user. When I use this account to create sql database, it won't let me go through and shows that RPC server is unavailable. So I set up sql using the local server account , and add this domain user to sql users (chris*******) and give it all permissions. I'm not sure that's where it all started. Because I saw a blog it said I need to use a DOMAIN\Administrator account to manage a SQL Server and Sharepoint Server. But on Microsoft official website it only require that is a domain user.
Best!
Kun Yu
- spucelik
The account doesn't need to be a domain admin, but it does need the ability to connect to SQL. Are you able to login to SQL Management studio and go through the motions of creating a database? If not then you're account doesn't have the right permissions. They must have db_creator at a minimum.