Sitecore Experience Commerce 9

SIF PowerShell Validation Error when Skipping SXA Storefront Installation

Rameez Akram

• 1 min read

I was setting up my Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0.2 installation to install without SXA Storefront, following the instructions from the installation guide:

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Oddly, after copying the text from the installation guide, I get the following error:

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Turns out that copying and pasting the command (we always like shortcuts) the hyphen is encoded as a different character, causing the error above. At first glance it's hard to notice or identify visually, but I had a hunch it might be the issue:

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I deleted the hyphen, and manually entered it and it worked! Sometimes shortcuts lead to total randomness :)