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Never install SharePoint 2013 on a Domain Controller

By Stefan Feenstra   /     Jul 18, 2013  /     SharePoint 2013  /     3 Comments

Please keep in mind when you want to create a Single Server installation of SharePoint 2013 that you don’t install SharePoint 2013 on a Domain Controller. Some features of SharePoint 2013 don’t work when you install it on the Domain Controller. Today I found one:

When I tried to activate my Sandboxed Solution on my single server SharePoint 2013 installation it failed with the following error:

An attempt to connect to the remote activator failed with exception 'System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Cannot resolve 'channel' template reference: 'http client'.

An attempt to connect to the remote activator failed with exception ‘System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Cannot resolve ‘channel’ template reference: ‘http client’.

Then I tried to activate the same solution on a SharePoint 2013 installation with a seperate domain controller server and it worked! And when you leave the feature event receiver commented out it’s also working on the single server installation.

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