The much awaited SharePoint 2016 Release to Manufacturing (RTM) has been released Yesterday (14 March 2016). With that, let us start exploring SharePoint 2016. But, I feel there will be a lot of configurations/prerequisites might be required to install SharePoint 2016 on our Developer Boxes. But, watch out in this space for more information, as let me try to install, explore and share the experience with the readers here as a series of articles.
For the time being, let me share some of the information which I got regarding the SharePoint 2016 from the technet, Microsoft Blogs etc., here, as a detailed all in one place kind of stuff. I have not tried, experienced the new features of SP2016 at this point. Treat this post as a consolidation of various technet articles, blogs etc., and as a beginning to SP2016.
Before digging into the new features, capabilities of SP2016, let us start with how to install on our Developer Boxes.
First of all, the link to download the SP2016 Trial Version is SP2016 Trial Download
On the page, we can see the download link.
And the Installation instructions are
To start the download:
1. Select the desired installation language from Select Language.
2. Click the Download button.
3. Click Save to copy the disc image file to your computer.
To install SharePoint Server 2016:
1. Double click the disc image file to mount it as a drive on your computer.
2. Navigate to the mounted drive.
3. Run prerequisiteinstaller.exe to launch the Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Products Preparation Tool.
4. Run setup.exe to launch Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 Setup.
5. When prompted, use the following 180-day trial product key: NQGJR-63HC8-XCRQH-MYVCH-3J3QR
Review Install SharePoint Server 2016 for detailed setup instructions.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
| Installation scenario | Deployment type and scale | RAM | Processor | Hard disk space |
| Single server role that uses SQL Server | Development or evaluation installation of SharePoint Server 2016 with the minimum recommended services for development environments. For information, see Minimum recommended services for development environments. | 16 GB | 64-bit, 4 cores | 80 GB for system drive 100 GB for second drive |
| Single server role that uses SQL Server | Pilot or user acceptance test installation of SharePoint Server 2016 running all available services for development environments. | 24 GB | 64-bit, 4 cores | 80 GB for system drive 100 GB for second drive and additional drives |
| Web server or application server in a three-tier farm | Development or evaluation installation of SharePoint Server 2016 with a minimum number of services. | 12 GB | 64-bit, 4 cores | 80 GB for system drive 80 GB for second drive |
| Web server or application server in a three-tier farm | Pilot, user acceptance test, or production deployment of SharePoint Server 2016 running all available services. | 16 GB | 64-bit, 4 cores | 80 GB for system drive 80 GB for second drive and additional drives |
Minimum Software Requirements
Minimum requirements for a database server in a farm:
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- The 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
 Note: |
| SQL Server Express is not supported. |
- The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Datacenter
Minimum requirements for SharePoint servers in a farm:
- The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Datacenter
- The Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool installs the following prerequisites for front-end web servers and application servers in a farm:
- Web Server (IIS) role
- Application Server role
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
- Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6
- Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
- Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
- Windows Server AppFabric 1.1
- Cumulative Update Package 7 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB 3092423)
- Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server
- Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2012
- Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2015
Prerequisites download Links
The prerequisites can be downloaded from the below links.
· Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
· Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6
· Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6
· Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
· Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client (installs with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack)
· Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server
· Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
· Windows Server AppFabric 1.1
· Cumulative Update Package 7 for AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server
· Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2012
· Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2015
· Exchange Web Services Managed API, version 1.2
At this Point, this may not be very clear. But, I just wanted to make sure that links are available to everyone. Let us be more precise on the upcoming articles, once start installation.
For More detailed information, have a look on this.
Happy Coding,
Sathish Nadarajan.
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