SharePoint Short #11
If you’re trying to install SharePoint 2013 and during the installation of the prerequisites it fails with the message “Error: The tool was unable to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client” and the error code 0X654=1620, try the following:
To resolve this, download the client and manually install it before running the prerequisite installer again.
The download for the client can be found here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/3/9138773A-505D-43E2-AC08-9A77E1E0490B/1033/x64/sqlncli.msi
Thanks for posting, I had the same problem
Thanks, worked for me as well.
Regards,
Andre