Note: While trying to find the software to install SharePoint 2016 toward the end of my work i ran across: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1479207/offline-installation-of-sharepoint-2016-prerequisi. I hope this helps shortcut the downloads and installs for everyone. Keep reading if you would like to know more of what I went through.
Trying to install SharePoint 2016 in 2025 is a pain. My first attempt at this was on Windows Server 2019. At some point I broke the AppFrabic install and had to restart the entire process. The next time I attempted the install on Windows Server 2016. For some reason it failed to successfully download, and that is why I went with 2019 to start with.
As applications like AppFrabric at no longer available on Microsoft’s website for download, I found a copy of it on Legacy Update here. After installation you will also need Cumulative Update 7, and that can be found here on Microsoft’s Website.
I also needed Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6 and I found it Archive.org here. According to this discussion on Microsoft’s Community boards, you can still directly download it from Microsoft.
Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server can be found here.
Microsoft Identity Extensions are found here.
SharePoint 2016 is still available, at least at the time of this write up, from the Microsoft’s website. You will also want to run Windows Update on your server if that is still available when you have to do this install.
You will also want to get SSMS v16 to work with Microsoft SQL 2016. You can get a copy from Microsoft here. Mount the ISO. In the folder ‘Add-ins and extentions’ you can run the extensions setup from there.
If this is going to be stand-alone, which is what I’m doing, go ahead and installed MSSQL 2016.
After gathering install files it is time to run the prerequisite check and solve for any errors that you might have. As files will need be manually point to, you will want to run the prerequisite check from the command line; I used Powershell and elevated privileges.
There are some applications that you can install manually and the prerequisite checker doesn’t give much of a fuss. The one thing that you should install via the prerequisite checker is AppFabric. The prerequisite checker will install the application and configure it. If you do not do this, you have a great chance of have to reinstall your server OS as trying to remove AppFabric will fail and you will not be able to reinstall it.
.\prerequisiteinstaller.exe /Sync:"C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sp_2016_setup\SyncSetup_en.x64\Microsoft Sync Framework\Synchronization.msi" /AppFabric:C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sp_2016_setup\WindowsServerAppFabricSetup_x64.exe /KB3092423:C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sp_2016_setup\AppFabric-KB3092423-x64-ENU.exe /WCFDataServices56:C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sp_2016_setup\WcfDataServices.exe /ODBC:C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sp_2016_setup\msodbcsql.msiYou will also need to join your server to a domain. This is something that I wasn’t aware of. SharePoint will not install, even as a standalone server without a domain connection. Nothing like over engineering for the sake of over engineering.