Youtube Video

Finally, everything is working fine!

That was tough! But now seems to be an easy one, Just need to learn more and dive deep into SP.

Yeah! And SSL setup is becoming painless soon! Am sure most admins would be happy!
https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/

All sites SSL!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

http://speedify.com/features/

Anyone tried this?

And now I am not able to create a new web application, the wizard says this shouldn't take long, stays there and shows something went wrong. One time I got a time out error, and as per a post on a blog, I increased the "shutdown time limit" and "Ping maximum response" and that was fixed. Now checking it with ULS viewer

Yes, for MAC we still need Virtualbox!

Ok. the installation was successful. After the installation, as a test, created a new web application. After all details was entered, and I clicked ok, all I could see now is "Creating New Web Application, this shouldn't take long" and stays there, its been almost 15 minutes now. Need to check why this is happening.

Yes!!!

As mentioned in my previous post, SP 2013 is not supported by 2012 R2. For that you need a slip streamed version of SP 2013 with SP1. I downloaded that version from my MSDN subscription, then executed the prerequisite installer. Initially it gave me an error that server role IIS failed to configure.

Tried the hotfix from the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2765260 but the hotfix didn't work. Then used the below commands, run as admin powershell,

*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*

Then executed the prerequisiteinstaller, everything went well, did an automatic restart and finished the whole setup including App fabric.

Now installing SP 2013. Will see how it goes after the installation.

Sorry haven't got a chance yet, moving into a new apartment and sorting out my internet connection. Should be able to check tonight.

One more! http://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-get-started-systemd/

Ive seen quite a lot of posts mentioning this issue, with different solutions, but nothing seems to be working for me! One place I read that SP 2013 is not supported by 2012 R2, and works with only SP2013 with SP1.

One of my test HyperV I managed to install SP somehow following the guide from http://iouchkov.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/how-to-install-sharepoint-2013-on-windows-server-2012-r2/ but central admin is super slow. I am trying to figure out why. Setting up another instance with 2012 server (not r2) and trying it again!

That sounds great! Thanks for the link, some of my friends would be able to use it.

Does this help?
Youtube Video

I am trying to setup a test lab with Windows 2012 R2, SQL 2012 and SP 2013- 3 servers.

Installed AD on one server, SQL 2012 on second and then started installing sharepoint on 3rd server. Executed the prerequisite installer, except Appfabric cumulative update, everything else is fine. No matter what/how I tried, the cumulative update doesnt gets installed and so can't start sharepoint setup. I've tried several options like executing app fabric via command and then run the CU, removed App fabric from control panel, let prerequisite installer installs everything automatically, but when it reaches the CU, it fails. Has anyone come across such an issue?

Thanks @scottalanmiller this would give me enough points to make sure either we get them with 3 or not to go with this vendor and stress more on the hosted pbx platform, and I might come back to you!

Oh yes! Good point. Will check with the vendor about this as well

The changelog for 2.4 says:

• Changes in Elastix Security:
  • The instalation of this module now its much cleaner.
  • Change of files owners for more security int he path web path.
  • Some bug fixes for Elastix-Security.

@scottalanmiller I am still waiting for the guys to meet and discuss about the hosted PBX option. Meanwhile, got some info from the vendor, that their current stable elastix version used is 2.4 and said 2.5 version has some bugs which leads to call drops! Told him to send me the list of bugs, so I could verify if thats really the case or just avoiding the upgrade!

Thanks @scottalanmiller Im currently learning Sharepoint 2013, with pluralsight tutorials. These would be good additions