Sunday, April 14, 2013

Installing .NET Framework on Win2012

A "bug" in Windows 2012 is that the source files for .NET Framework are not installed with the default GUI install of Windows 2012.

A quick review of Get-WindowsFeature in Powershell will show that
[ ] .NET Framework 3.5 (NET-Framework-Core) has a status of "Removed".

Documentation on the net indicates that this will "install on demand" from the source media or from Windows Update.   Not true.  Even though this is on the Win2012 Certification Exam, it actually does not work.    

The command to get past this little "bug" is to run DISM.

The command then to install this feature is:
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:d:\sources\sxs

Your Welcome.

For reference, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/hh506443.aspx 

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