Step By Step Installation Of SharePoint Server 2019 Preview For Single Server Farm Topology

Prasad Pathak

SharePointSharePoint Server 2019 PreviewSingle Server Farm Topology

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Marius Mihailescu6y ago
Hello there, Any advice about step 30 why I am receiving the following error message: "An error has occurred while validating the configuration settings. An exception of type System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException was thrown. Additional exception information: The object identifier does not represent a valid object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8)". My SharePoint version is 2019. Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated.
Mayank Garg6y ago
Thanks Prasad for sharing these steps.
Sourav Paul8y ago
After running the powershell command i am still getting error with permission can you please help me
Jeff AvecNom8y ago
Thank you, if you are interested i've shared additional steps to get SharePoint Landing page working, as well as communication sites creation for example. http://bit.ly/2ALXwRD
Prasham Sabadra8y ago
Thanks Prasad for sharing this...
Nanddeep Nachan8y ago
Thanks for sharing. SP2019 installation seems easier than SP2016. By the way - is there still MinRole concept in 2019?
- Rahul Dagar8y ago
  Yes, MinRole concept will be available in SP 2019 and a new role is added to it the existing list of MinRole and it will be called "Shared Role"

We know that SharePoint Server 2019 and Project Server 2019 preview are available, and I was excited by this news and thought to have it installed and check out what’s new.

The following article will have instructions to install SharePoint Server 2019 preview on Azure VM.

Let’s start by creating the virtual machine on Windows Azure platform.

I have created a VM with image template ‘SQL Server 2017 Standard on Windows Server 2016’.

I have chosen ‘Standard B4Ms’ sizes configuration.

And it will take some time to create the VM. Following are the configurations shown on the created VM on Azure.

Now as we have Virtual Machine ready with SQL server 2017, we can start with SharePoint Server 2019 installation.

Let’s first download the setup from here.
I have chosen ‘en-us\16.0.10711.37301_OfficeServer_none_ship_x64_en-us_dvd\officeserver_en-us.img’ installation language for downloading installation, its 3.8GB size.
Click Save to copy the disc image file to your computer.
Right click on the ‘officeserver_en-us.img’ file and select Mount option.
Navigate to the mounted drive.
Run splash.hta to launch the SharePoint Server 2019 Start page.
Click Install software prerequisites to launch the Microsoft SharePoint 2019 Products Preparation Tool.
Follow the instructions in the tool to complete the installation of the software prerequisites.
Select ‘Finish’ to restart the server and complete the installation of prerequisites.
After restarting, if the image file is not mounted automatically then repeat step 4, 5 and 6 to run the splash.hta file.
On the SharePoint Server 2019 Start page, click ‘Install SharePoint Server’ to launch Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 Public Preview Setup.
When prompted, provide a product key. You can use the trial product key from this article's installation instructions section. The trial period is 180 days. You can convert to a licensed installation at any time during the trial or after the trial has expired by entering the appropriate product key in Central Administration.

Sit back and relax to complete the installation.

After completing the setup SharePoint Product configuration wizard will be started.
Select ‘Yes’ at the following screen.
As we are creating a new farm, select as shown in the below screen shot.
Select Next on the below screen.
In the next screen we need to provide DB server details and Database access account details.
After giving user details, using which we have created the VM, I was getting the following error: “The specified user <User name> is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in standalone mode

I thought we need to create a SQL user and pass that to continue the setup.
Hence I connected to SQL server management studio.
I have created a new SQL user.
And granted all the roles to that account.
Now selecting the newly-created user also was not helping me and giving me the same error as given in step no 19.
After that I tried creating a new local user account and added that to Local administrator group and used those users in SQL. This also didn't help me and I got stuck for some time.
After searching for the error we came across SP 2016 post when the solution was described to use the New-SPConfigurationDatabase cmdlet.

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName SharePoint_ConfigDB -DatabaseServer [ServerName] -AdministrationContentDatabaseName SharePoint_ContentDB -Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString [password] -AsPlaintext -Force) -FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -localserverrole SingleServerFarm

Please read about at cmdlet New-SPConfigurationDatabase , I used ‘SingleServerFarm’ option for localserverrole parameter as I am installing on a single server.
This command will take some time and create a configuration database.
After successful completion run the SharePoint product configuration wizard again.