SharePoint Server 2016 System Requirements
These hardware and software requirements was required for Microsoft SharePoint 2016 installation.
| Scenario
|
Deployment Type
|
Processor
|
RAM
|
Hard disk
|
| Database server running a single SQL instance |
Development |
64-bit, 4 cores |
12-GB |
80GB |
| Database server running a single SQL instance |
QA Production |
64-bit, 4 cores |
16-24 GB |
80GB |
| Web server or application server in a three-tier farm |
Development |
64-bit, 4 cores |
12-16 GB |
80GB |
| Web server or application server in a three-tier farm |
QA / Production |
64-bit, 4 cores |
16-24 GB |
80GB |
Prerequisites for SharePoint 2016:
Prerequisites require for installing SharePoint 2016. Like SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016 has a Prerequisite Installer (prerequisiteinstaller.exe) which will install the required components.
- Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
- Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server
- Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64).
- Windows Server AppFabric 1.1
- Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB2671763)
- Microsoft Identity Extensions.
- Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client
- Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client
- Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2
- Update for Microsoft .NET Framework to disable RC4 in Transport Layer Security (KB2898850)
- Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013
Operating System Requirement:
Supports on Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows Server Technical Preview
.Net Framework:
- Windows Server 2012 R2: SharePoint 2016 requires .NET Framework 4.5.2
- Windows Server Technical Preview "Threshold": SharePoint 16 requires .NET Framework 4.6 Preview, which comes with Windows Server Technical Preview "Threshold".
Database Requirements:
SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2016
Deployment Scenarios:
- Workgroup: Unsupported
- Domain Controller: Developer Installation
- Client OS: Unsupported
- Dynamic Memory: Unsupported
- Windows Web Server: Unsupported