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SQL Server installer unable to download the required files
Dear Community, I wanted to install the developer edition, however, I keep getting this error message: "We failed to download the files we require. Please check your network connection and try agai...
I've had a similar problem with SQL Express 2019 and this helped on WS 2019
# set strong cryptography on 64 bit .Net Framework (version 4 and above)
Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NetFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Value '1' -Type Dword
# set strong cryptography on 32 bit .Net Framework (version 4 and above)
Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NetFramework\v4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Value '1' -Type Dword
Brilliant! Worked for Express edition too!