Windows 8 Pro
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Sharepoint 2013 prerequisite installer continously installs, restarts the machine, installs with the same message, restarts, in a continous loop for about 2 hours then finally fails windows update for some unknown reason.
Installing prerequisites manually causes the Sharepoint 2013 Server installer to claim that App Fabric is missing even though I installed App Fabric several times using Web Platform Installer 4.
Where is the Sharepoint 2013 prerequisite installer that actually works? The one that comes in the ISO package does not work, in fact the prerequisite programs folder only has one exe in it.
And by the way, why does App Fabric install SQL Server 2008 Express even though there is an instance of SQL Server 2012 already on the VM? That's dumb.
And why do MS products always seem to want to insist on using SQL Express when it cannot be licensed for actual production deployments? That's dumb too. Just sayin.
Eric Kleeman Senior Dev Engineer Inovalon