How to install SharePoint in Windows Server R2

[Update 26.02.2014] Many thanks to everybody commented the This post. As Falk already mentioned in the comments, a Service Pack for SharePoint have been recently released. This release makes the article obsolete, as any compatibility issues seems to be resolved. Install SP SP1 on Server R2.

If you are the reading this post, the most probably you have difficulties to install SharePoint in Windows Server, R2. According to the official Microsoft Statement, this is not supported until release of Service Pack 1 for SP2013. However, if you don ' t want to wait and also already love advantages of R2, within this post I'll share my successful exp Erience installing SP2013 on Windows Server R2.

1. Login to your R2 server as Administrator. You can as well perform this step under the Farm Administrator account, which should is also local Administrator on the SE RVer. Start Power Shell as Administrator and execute following statements:

import-module servermanageradd-windowsfeature Net-wcf-http-activation45,net-wcf-tcp-activation45,net-wcf-pipe-activation45-source D:\Sources\ Sxsadd-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 

Note: D:\ is your Windows installation media.

2. Download all prerequisites from the Internet and save it on local disk of the server, e.g. C:\SP2013Prereq:

SQL Server R2 SP1 Native Client
Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
Microsoft information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
Windows Identity Extensions
Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405)
Windows Server AppFabric
CU 1 for AppFabric 1.1 (KB2671763)

3. Install all prerequisites directly from the Prerequisites folder on the download sequence,EXCEPT the last (AppFabric and CU 1 for AppFabric).

4. AppFabric requires special configuration, therefore installing it usual on is not being enough for SharePoint. Install it using following statement from command line:

windowsserverappfabricsetup_x64.exe/i cacheclient "," Cachingservice "," Cacheadmin/gac

Note:the syntax with quotas are correct, it separates commas, not the components.

5. Install Appfabric1.1-rtm-kb2671763-x64-enu

6. Restart Your Server

congratulations! Now you'll be able-start SharePoint installer directly and to continue with SharePoint installation and con Figuration.