SharePoint 2013 Configuration Wizard fails with SQL Server max degree of parallelism error
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Recently I tried to install SharePoint 2013 in my test environment based on the multiple servers for a three-tier farm scenario, where my SQL Server is on another machine and I got the following error during SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard: Failed to create the configuration database Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: This SQL Server instance does not …