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Cannot install Sharepoint 2016 on Server 2016
Based on the log, you seem to be encountering this issue https://www.vioreliftode.com/index.php/sharepoint-2016-it-preview-there-was-an-error-during-installation/.
There are a couple of solution options towards the end of the post.
Never install AppFab manually. Worse yet, you may not be able to uninstall it correctly, leading to a server rebuild.
That said, are you sure you're using SharePoint 2016 RTM?
Trevor,
Thanks for the reply. I tried multiple versions of SharePoint 2016, one from the current ISO on the VLSC and the other from Microsoft's download website. They are identical as far as I can tell. They both are missing all the installers for the prerequisites and neither was able to install any of the prerequeisites using the prerequisite installer tool., even when the individual installers were manually downloaded and set-uo in the installer's prerequisites folder following instructions others have posted.
I did multiple attempts including using a fresh build of Server 2016 on a clean VM.
I was able to get the prerequisite installer to be satisfied with my manual installations of everything. It is just the SharePoint Installer that rejects the build, specifically complaining about AppFabric.
Even though many posts said not to install it manually, nothing I followed allowed the prerequisite installer to install it, even the registry edits of the install location, and the Powershell system environment edits. The prerequisite installer was satisfied after I manually installed and configured the caching service, where I copied all the settings from an operational SharePoint 2013 system I ahve running on Server 2012. I am confident that everything is correctly configured, I just would like to know exactly what the SharePoint 2016 installer is looking at that triggers an immediate refusal to install. It has to be something simple since it immediately rejects the installation.
- AppFab isn't configured the same as it was with 2013, e.g. it uses anon instead of NTLM for auth requests between SharePoint and AppFab.
You've got something either going on with your build process, or a GPO/local GP in place that is preventing the pre-req from completing properly. On an RTM version of SharePoint 2016 with an RTM or higher version of Server 2016, the installation is rather smooth.Thank you. I will follow up on these suggestions. I am using the current ISOs from VLSC for both Server 2016 and SharePoint 2016. I did no other changes or GPO settings other than joining Server to our Active Directory Domain. We have no GPO customizations in our domain. The prerequisite installer always fails to download the prerequisite files, even though the server is on the Internet and there are no firewall settings blocking it. So without manual intervention nothing gets installed. The logs only show that it can't download the required installers.
- Sounds like a possible DNS issue. Run strings.exe from Sysinternals on the pre-req binary.
strings.exe -u X:\prerequisiteinstaller.exe | findstr http://go
Grab the URLs and test them out from your client and from the server.