{"id":256,"date":"2012-08-10T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:51:16","slug":"4-prerequisites-missing-from-sharepoint-2013-prerequisitesinstaller-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"4 Prerequisites Missing from SharePoint 2013 PrerequisitesInstaller.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an old adage that says \u201cWhen all else fails, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!<\/strong>\u201d  This is particularly true when it comes to installing Beta releases.  Unfortunately many people, including me<\/em>, don\u2019t always read all the release notes before installing.  When the preview Beta of SharePoint 2013 was released a couple weeks ago I very quickly downloaded it and spent the first evening installing it into a Virtual environment.  After all, I had installed lots of Betas in the past and I was normally able to work through any of the issues that came up.  Since I knew the client I would be installing it at soon had servers that could not download files directly from the Internet I even updated a 2010 PowerShell script that I got from AutoSPInstaller  on CodePlex to download all the new 2013 prerequisites.  (You can see that post here<\/a>)  So I was very surprised when someone pointed out to me the next day that there were three (3) prerequisites that aren\u2019t included and that are only mentioned in the documentation.  You\u2019ll find them in step 6 of the various installation walkthroughs: single server with SQL<\/a>, single server with SQLExpress<\/a>, and multiple servers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To keep you from making the same mistake I did here are descriptions and download locations for the 3 updates.  NOTE: These all are specific to Server 2008 r2 and probably aren\u2019t needed if installing on Server 2012 RC.<\/em><\/p>\n