You might have seen on Facebook that I have completed the new setup of my machines. Since I use VMs to do my tests. To have a domain, I made a VM as domain controller and another as a member server. Next step was to install SQL Server and by mistake, I have run the setup of SQL on a domain controller. As per Microsoft documentation they don’t recommend installing SQL on the domain controller and there is a warning in SQL Setup. Let us learn about how to fix Installation Failed With Error.
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