Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error

I’m installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012 ‘offline’ – the server has no Internet access.  Within minutes of starting the Preparation Tool to install the prerequisites it has failed to install the Web Server (IIS) Role.

Error_During_Installation

The process failed because additional files are required and the server does not have access to Windows Update.  I’ve got around this by installing the role manually using a few PowerShell commands, namely Add-WindowsFeature, specifying the Windows 2012 DVD as the installation source (the server is virtual so I have mounted the ISO image).  The commands are as follows:

Import-Module ServerManager

Add-WindowsFeature NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,NET-WCF-TCP-Activation45,NET-WCF-Pipe-Activation45

Add-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Features,Web-Server,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-App-Dev,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Security,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Web-Metabase,Application-Server,AS-Web-Support,AS-TCP-Port-Sharing,AS-WAS-Support, AS-HTTP-Activation,AS-TCP-Activation,AS-Named-Pipes,AS-Net-Framework,WAS,WAS-Process-Model,WAS-NET-Environment,WAS-Config-APIs,Web-Lgcy-Scripting,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation,Xps-Viewer -Source D:\Sources\sxs

 

PowerShell_Commands

This process took no more than a few minutes to complete.  After a quick reboot the configuration is completed.  After logging on I restarted the Preparation Tool and it completed without error.

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