Installing SharePoint in standalone / single server mode

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:33:06 +0000

In SharePoint 2016, it’s no longer possible to use PSConfig / SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard to provision a single server SharePoint Farm. You’re likely doing this because you just want a single dev environment to… do some stuff. Strangely (more like typically) Microsoft don’t make this particularly easy for you.

Assuming you have the basis of a SharePoint server, i.e., :

Some sort of OS (i.e. Windows Server)
Some sort of SQL Server (i.e., SQL Server 2016)
SharePoint binaries installed

which isn’t connected to a domain, then you likely fire up the Config Wizard, fill in the obvious entries (ie. specify database server, create new farm, provide credentials, etc.) and specify a local account and the “wizard” tells you that local accounts can only be used in stand alone mode. Well, yeah, exactly, that’s what I wanted. But there’s no way past it.

Standalone Mode on Matt Thornton

Installing SharePoint in standalone / single server mode