Software and Hardware Requirements for SharePoint 2013

Monday, July 16, 2012


Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • Processor: 64-bit, 4 cores
  • RAM:
  • 8 GB for production use

  • 4 GB for developer or evaluation use
  • Hard disk:
  • 80 GB free for system drive
  • Maintain 2x free space as available RAM
Deference between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 15(2013)
Database Servers

  • Processor:
  • 64-bit, 4 cores for “small” deployments
  • 64-bit, 8 cores for “medium” deployments
  • RAM:
  • 8 GB for “small” deployments
  • 16 GB for “medium” deployments
  • Hard disk:
  • 80 GB free for system drive
  • SP Data Storage dependent on corpus
  • size, performance requirements, etc.


Software Requirements
64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, Data Center, or Web Server

Database Servers – Minimum Software Requirements

Database Servers – Optional Software

  • 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (i.e. not Release Candidate 0 / RCO)

  • SQL Server 2012 RTM Manageability Tool Kit
  • SQL Server 2012 RTM Native Client 64-bit
  • SQL Server 2012 RTM SQL ScriptDom 64-bit
  • System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012 RTM
  • SQL Server 2012 RTM Transact-SQL 64-bit
  • SQL Server 2012 RTM Data-Tier Application Framework 64-bit
64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, Data Center, or Web Server


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