Problem solved, many thanks to Joseph for his professional help and support. Here are the takeaways from this post:
Next step, I will try to install SharePoint 2013 using the ASPI :-)
Once again thanks a ton to everyone who replied to my frustrated posts and kept up with me specially Joseph for his help and Brian for building such a great tool.
Happy scripting folks!!!
- Auto Admin Logon switched to Disabled since it is required for SharePoint 2013 and I was doing 2010 install.
- Farm Database switched to just the server name (sps2010) rather a FQDN (sps2010.corp.contoso.local).
- Also created an Alias (sps2010) for the farm database.
- Entered explicit Logging locations as C:\Logs\IIS, C:\Logs\ULS, C:\Logs\Usage, I originally had left them blank.
- Outgoing Email wasn't configured because I did not have an SMTP server installed but it looks like this information is required to be there.
- For Service Applications, User Profile Service, I had the "Create Default Sync Connection" checked but it isn't supported for On-Premise installations, so it has to be turned off.
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Word Automation service application was turned off.
Next step, I will try to install SharePoint 2013 using the ASPI :-)
Once again thanks a ton to everyone who replied to my frustrated posts and kept up with me specially Joseph for his help and Brian for building such a great tool.
Happy scripting folks!!!