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The RPC Server is unavailable

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When installing SharePoint Server 2016 on Azure hosted VM in a single server Environment with AD Directory Services and SQL Server on the same box the configuration wizart might fail at step 3 (creating configuration database) with an error like "The RPC Server is unavailable".

To resolve that issue you just need to modify the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) so that your domain will be resolved on you virtual machine. In my case I just had to add the line

 100.114.200.40 mycontoso.com

to the hosts file and the configuration of SharePoint Server 2016 finished successfully.

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  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2016
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  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2016
    This worked for me! Thanks!
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2016
    Thank for this wonderfull article. This works on my environment
  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2016
    It didn't work for me. I use 192.168.10.10 servernameI am not sure if it is because I use single servername.
  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2017
    Thank you for the writeup.I used the local loop-back and that worked as well. 127.0.0.1 mycontoso.com using your example.