Saturday, January 26, 2013

Manually Install Microsoft App Fabric Prerequisite for SharePoint 2013



In order to manually install Windows Server App Fabric for SharePoint 2013, first download the install file:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27115

assuming you store the file at c:

run the following commands from an elevated PowerShell command line:

$file = “c:\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe”

& $file /i CacheClient”,”CachingService”,”CacheAdmin /gac
 
Note the double quotations around the commas.

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for this Doug. Very helpful.

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  2. Is it okay to install the the AppFabric SP1 after I install App fabric using these commands without changing any of the initial configurations.

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  3. Brian, I have not tried it, but all of the Microsoft documentation says to completely uninstall pre-existing versions of the App Fabric before installing version 1.1. I would recommend following these articles to uninstall an existing installation of AppFabric:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637683(v=azure.10).aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637741(v=azure.10).aspx

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  4. I have a questions, I seem to have an issue with the app fabric on a new farm build with 3 servers. I think the problem may be because I see when I click on configure, it shows "This Machine is not a member of an AppFabric Caching Cluster" And then is shows the A feature AppFabric requires Enterprise or higher.....well how can I do that with server 2012? It either standard or datacenter with no feature differences that I am aware of.

    Anybody else have this problem?

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  5. Tom, I'm not sure exactly what steps you followed to install AppFabric, but you may want to take a look at this post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/c4e19d6b-8599-4048-a679-d7c7fed6bc07

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