This article describes initial investments made in installation and deployment of SharePoint Server 2016.
NOTE Features and capabilities are subject to change.
System Requirements
| Scenario | Deployment type and scale | Processor | RAM | Hard disk |
| Database server running a single SQL instance | Development or evaluation installation with the minimum recommended services | 64-bit, 4 cores | 12-16 GB | 80 GB for system drive
100 GB for second drive
|
| Database server running a single SQL instance | Pilot, user acceptance test running all available services | 64-bit, 4 cores | 16-24 GB | 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 with the minimum number of services | 64-bit, 4 cores | 8-12 GB | 80 GB for system drive
80 GB for second drive
|
| Web server or application server in a three-tier farm | Pilot, user acceptance test running all available services | 64-bit, 4 cores | 12-16 GB | 80 GB for system drive
80 GB for second drive and additional drives
|
NOTE
Disk space and number of drives depends on the amount of content and
the method chosen to distribute data for a SharePoint environment.
Deployment Scenarios
| | SharePoint Server 2013 | SharePoint Server 2016 |
| Workgroup | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Domain Controller | Developer Installation | Developer Installation |
| Client OS | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Dynamic Memory | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Windows Web Server | Unsupported | Unsupported |
Operating System Requirements
SharePoint
Server 2016 is supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server
Technical Preview. Evaluation copies of both operating systems can be
downloaded from the TechNet Evaluation Center:
.NET Framework
The required version of .NET Framework is different for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server Technical Preview “Threshold”.
- Windows Server 2012 R2: SharePoint 16 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".
NOTE Beginning January 13,
2016, .NET Framework 4.5.2 will be the minimum version of .NET Framework
4.x supported by Microsoft. See the Microsoft .NET Framework Support
Lifecycle Policy FAQ at
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/Framework_FAQ for more information.
Prerequisites
SharePoint
Server 2016 prerequisites are similar to those required to install
SharePoint Server 2013 and can be installed manually or with the
Prerequisite Installer:
All the required prerequisites are installed by the SharePoint Prerequisite installer.
The
SharePoint Server 16 Prerequisite Installer (prerequisiteinstaller.exe)
installs the following software, if it has not already been installed
on the target server:
Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role.
You can enable the Web Server (IIS) role and the Application Server
role in Server Manager. However if the server is not connected to the
Internet, the
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2765260 article has an Offline method that explains how to use several Window PowerShell cmdlets to add and enable these roles.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client. Installs with the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29065]
The
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone
packages which provide additional value for Microsoft® SQL Server®
2012. It includes the latest versions of:
- Tool and components for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012.
- Add-on providers for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012.
Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36434]
Microsoft
ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server is a single dynamic-link library (DLL)
containing run-time support for applications using native-code APIs to
connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012,
SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure SQL Database. This redistributable
installer for Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server installs the
client components needed during run time to take advantage of new SQL
Server 2012 features, and optionally installs the header files needed to
develop an application that uses the ODBC API.
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64) [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17616]
Microsoft
Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables
collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services, and
devices. Developers can build synchronization ecosystems that integrate
any application and any type of data, using any protocol over any
network. This service pack is intended to fix a handful of bugs as well
as to transition to a public-facing change tracking API that is new in
SQL Compact 3.5 SP2.
Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27115]
AppFabric
is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build,
scale, and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS.
AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite applications, including:
- Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications
- Management and monitoring of services and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell
- Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance
Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB2671763) [
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2671763]
Cumulative
update package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server. This
hotfix package resolves several issues and adds several features that
are described at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2671763.
Microsoft Identity Extensions [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15373]
Microsoft
Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 enables interoperable
federated access to SharePoint 3.0 sites using the WS-Federation
standard. It is built using the Windows Identity Foundation and supports
use of ADFS 2.0 as an identity provider.
Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client [
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=528177]
The
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) Client 2.x is
software designed for your computers to help protect access to and usage
of information flowing through applications that use AD RMS.
Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0 [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29306]
WCF
Data Services 5.0 enables creation and consumption of data services for
the Web according to version 3 of the Open Data Protocol (OData), which
facilitates data access and change via standard HTTP verbs. WCF Data
Services 5.0 includes .NET Framework server and client libraries as well
as Silverlight client libraries.
Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.6 [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45308]
This
installer will update the NuGet packages referenced by the WCF Data
Services item templates to version 5.6.3. This installer also makes the
code generation (the “Add Service Reference”) for consuming OData V3
endpoints available for all current and future .Net 4.5.X versions.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 [
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2934520]
The
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 is a highly compatible, in-place update
to the .NET Framework 4.5.1, the .NET Framework 4.5, and the .NET
Framework 4. However, it can run side by side with the .NET Framework
3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and earlier versions of the .NET Framework.
The
.NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows
Server 2012 R2 is available on Windows Update and on Windows Server
Update Service (WSUS).
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework to disable RC4 in Transport Layer Security (KB2898850) [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42883]
Resolved
a security issue that has been identified that could allow an
unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise a system and gain access
to information.
Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013 [
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784]
The
Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install run-time components that
are required to run applications that are developed by using Visual
Studio 2013, on computers that don't have Visual Studio 2013 installed.
These packages install run-time components of these libraries: C Runtime
(CRT), Standard C++, ATL, MFC, C++ AMP, and OpenMP.
SharePoint Database Server Requirements
SharePoint
Server 2016 requires SQL Server 2014 for its databases. You can
download SQL Server from the TechNet Evaluation Center at
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2014. In addition SharePoint Server 2016 will support SQL Server 2016. For additional information on SQL Server 2016 see also
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-2016/.
MinRole (v1) Overview
One
of the early new infrastructure advancements in SharePoint Server 2016
is a new concept, MinRole. MinRole is designed to transform guidance
into code, simplifying deployment and scale with SharePoint ensuring a
request is served end-to-end by the receiving server based on the
origination of the request (I.e. end user or batch processing) and role
of the destination server.
In previous versions of SharePoint,
installation is role agnostic, which being a SharePoint servers’ role
was only defined by what services were provisioned and its placement in a
SharePoint Farm topology. In many cases to serve a request, whether
end user initiated or otherwise, the request traversed the scope of the
SharePoint topology.
In addition, for each role there were
specific documented recommendations to address performance and capacity
planning, see also
Streamlined Topologies for SharePoint Server 2013.
In
SharePoint Server 2016 documentation was put into code based on the
experience of running SharePoint at scale in Office 365. MinRole
provides an out-of-the-box experience that provides topology
recommendations, simplifies on-premises server farm deployments, and
reduces the unit of scale to simplify capacity planning while providing
predictable performance characteristics through enabling selective
provisioning of SharePoint server roles based on position and function
within a topology.
MinRole enables an administrator to select the
appropriate server role for a specific server when provisioning
SharePoint Server 2016 based on five (5) predefined configurations:
| Role Name | Description |
| Special Load | Reserved for services to be isolated from other services, I.e. 3rd party, PerformancePoint, etc. |
| Web Front End | Services end user requests, optimized for low latency. |
| Single Server Farm | Provisions
all services on the server for a single server deployment. This role
is provided for evaluation and development purposes. |
| Search | Reserved for Search services. |
| Application | Services the backend jobs or the requests triggered by backend jobs, optimized for high throughput. |
| Distributed Cache | Services
distributed cache for the farm. Optionally, the server assigned to this
role can load balance end user requests among the web front ends. |
A
predefined server role is configured and optimized for its intended
purpose provisioning the expected services designed to support its
function within a server farm environment.
In SharePoint Server 2016 MinRole can be instrumented through the PSConfig GUI or command line.
PSConfig and Windows PowerShell
MinRole
adds a new command line parameter, localserverrole, that can be used to
specify the role that should be assigned to a specific server when
configuring SharePoint Products and Technologies and accepts the
following values:
- SpecialLoad
- WebFrontEnd
- SingleServerFarm
- Search
- Application
- DistributedCache
Example 1 PSConfig.exe
psconfig.exe
-cmd configdb -create –server [Database Server Name] –database
[Configuration Database Name] –user [Farm Service Account] –password
[Farm Service Account Password] –passphrase [Passphrase]
–admincontentdatabase [Central Administration Content Database Name]
-localserverrole SingleServerFarm
Example 2 Windows PowerShell
New-SPConfigurationDatabase –DatabaseName [Configuration Database Name] –DatabaseServer [Database Server]
–AdministrationContentDatabaseName [Central Administration Content Database Name] –Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString
[Passphrase] –AsPlaintext –Force) –FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -localserverrole SingleServerFarm
PSConfigUI.exe
MinRole provisioning is available through PSConfigUI.exe in addition to PSConfig.exe.
Example 1 PSConfigUI.exe
