2013 Sharepoint Portal Installation fails on Languange Pack

gbayliss

Just sharing this error when installing Dynamics NAV 2013 RTM Sharepoint Portal Framework on a Sharepoint 2010 box.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Build 33781
Error Report
Portal Framework for SharePoint
Language Module (en-GB) for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Portal Framework
Fatal error during installation.

Unable to access local SharePoint farm.
Unable to access local SharePoint farm.

Digging deeper into the logfile reveals the following:

Windows Installer: Error: Unable to access local SharePoint farm.
Windows Installer: Error: Unable to access local SharePoint farm.
Done configuring package. Id = 'SPCServer_GB' ReturnCode = 1603
SUCCESS: Package Microsoft Dynamics NAV Setup Components executed sucessfully.
SUCCESS: Package Microsoft Dynamics NAV Portal Framework for Microsoft SharePoint executed sucessfully.
ERROR: Package Language Module (en-GB) for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Portal Framework failed with error. See detailed message above.

No additional information is available.

Searching the usual places does not yield any results.

A footnote for installing separate language pack for NAV exists in the Sharepoint Portal Framework Configuration section of the NAV2013 documentation.

The following link provides further information

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee414196%28v=nav.70%29.aspx

Unfortunately at the time of writing this, the short link to the language packs redirects to the wrong version of the language pack and completely fails to install, this is because the link points to 2009(6.0) SP1 language packs and of course we require NAV 2013(7.0) version.

You can find the latest NAV 7.0 language pack downloads on partnersource https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/support/selfsupport/productreleases/msdnav2013languagemodules.htm

The essential steps are:

0. Uninstall any failed attempts.
1. Download and unzip the language pack from PartnerSource
2. Go to the Server folder in the extracted package.
3. Install the Server Language component.
4. Install the NAV2013 portal framework installation (if you skipped the initial step you can try repairing a previous install).

I hope this helps anybody who runs into this issue.

andreasblueher

Hello gbayliss,

we ran into the same problem trying to install the german language pack. Unfortunately your instructions didn't help in our case and I'm wondering if someone else could bring some light into the dark for us. Our Farm Administrator has db_owner permission on ConfigDB and AdminContentDB and we installed the freshly downloaded language pack just like you said, but still getting the same error message.

Is there some kind of log where I could try to dig into the issue?

gbayliss

Sorry it didn't fix your issue ... I can't quite recall where the log came from, probably the installation wizard had a "Log File" or "Error Details button.

Failing that try looking in the event viewer in the machine you attempting to install on.

came

Hi,

the topic is maybe a little bit old.
But the solution will be to give the "Sharepoint Service Account" db_owner rights on the two Sharepoint DB's.

Normaly it is 'NT-AUTORITÄT\SYSTEM'.

came