Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Without an Internet Connection

September 18, 2012 / Kannan / 2 Comments

When a SharePoint 2013 needs to be deployed in a server which doesn’t have internet access, and SharePoint requires prerequisite to be installed, we can do couple of things.

1. Download prerequisites in a different machine which has access to internet.
2. Move that to the actual server where SharePoint needs to be deployed.
3. Use prerequisite installer to use local folder for installing the prerequisite.

Downloading prerequisites

We can download prerequisites using Powershell. Please use the following script.

Import-Module BitsTransfer
## Prompt for the destination path
$DestPath = Read-Host -Prompt "- Enter the destination path for downloaded files"
## Check that the path entered is valid
If (Test-Path "$DestPath" -Verbose)
{
	## If destination path is valid, create folder if it doesn't already exist
	$DestFolder = "$DestPath\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles"
	New-Item -ItemType Directory $DestFolder -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
Else
{
	Write-Warning " - Destination path appears to be invalid."
	## Pause
	Write-Host " - Please check the path, and try running the script again."
	Write-Host "- Press any key to exit..."
	$null = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
	break
}
## We use the hard-coded URL below, so that we can extract the filename (and use it to get destination filename $DestFileName)
## Note: These URLs are subject to change at Microsoft's discretion - check the permalink next to each if you have trouble downloading.
$UrlList = ("http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/F/D0F564A3-6734-470B-9772-AC38B3B6D8C2/dotNetFx45_Full_x86_x64.exe", # Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
            "http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/2/B/52B59966-3009-4F39-A99E-3732717BBE2A/Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu", # Windows Management Framework 3.0 (CTP2)
	    "http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/3/9138773A-505D-43E2-AC08-9A77E1E0490B/1033/x64/sqlncli.msi", #Microsoft SQL Server 2008 r2 Native Client
	    "http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/7/2/D72FD747-69B6-40B7-875B-C2B40A6B2BDD/Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu", #Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405)
	    "http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/0/0/E0060D8F-2354-4871-9596-DC78538799CC/Synchronization.msi", # Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64) 
	    "http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/7/A678AB47-496B-4907-B3D4-0A2D280A13C0/WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe", #Windows Server AppFabric
            "http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/1/D/01D06854-CA0C-46F1-ADBA-EBF86010DCC6/r2/MicrosoftIdentityExtensions-64.msi", # Windows Identity Extensions
            "http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/D/91DA8796-BE1D-46AF-8489-663AB7811517/setup_msipc_x64.msi", # Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client
            "http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/F/9/8F93DBBD-896B-4760-AC81-646F61363A6D/WcfDataServices.exe", # Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
            "http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/B/5/7B51D8D1-20FD-4BF0-87C7-4714F5A1C313/AppFabric1.1-RTM-KB2671763-x64-ENU.exe" # CU Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB2671763)
			)
ForEach ($Url in $UrlList)
{
	## Get the file name based on the portion of the URL after the last slash
	$DestFileName = $Url.Split('/')[-1]
	Try
	{
		## Check if destination file already exists
		If (!(Test-Path "$DestFolder\$DestFileName"))
		{
			## Begin download
			Start-BitsTransfer -Source $Url -Destination $DestFolder\$DestFileName -DisplayName "Downloading `'$DestFileName`' to $DestFolder" -Priority High -Description "From $Url..." -ErrorVariable err
			If ($err) {Throw ""}
		}
		Else
		{
			Write-Host " - File $DestFileName already exists, skipping..."
		}
	}
	Catch
	{
		Write-Warning " - An error occurred downloading `'$DestFileName`'"
		break
	}
}
## View the downloaded files in Windows Explorer
Invoke-Item $DestFolder
## Pause
Write-Host "- Downloads completed, press any key to exit..."
$null = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

 Once all the prerequisites are downloaded, copy them to server in a particular path and create the following batch file.

 Installing prerequisites

set PreReqPath="E:\Install\SharePoint\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles"
PrerequisiteInstaller.exe /SQLNCli:%PreReqPath%\sqlncli.msi ^
	/PowerShell:%PreReqPath%\Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu ^
	/NETFX:%PreReqPath%\dotNetFx45_Full_x86_x64.exe ^
	/IDFX:%PreReqPath%\Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu ^
	/Sync:%PreReqPath%\Synchronization.msi ^
	/AppFabric:%PreReqPath%\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe ^
	/IDFX11:%PreReqPath%\MicrosoftIdentityExtensions-64.msi ^
	/MSIPCClient:%PreReqPath%\setup_msipc_x64.msi ^
	/WCFDataServices:%PreReqPath%\WcfDataServices.exe ^
	/KB2671763:%PreReqPath%\AppFabric1.1-RTM-KB2671763-x64-ENU.exe

Source: http://www.dontpapanic.com/blog/?p=241