SharePoint Server 2016 Hardware and Software Requirements

Recently in Ignite, Microsoft's Senior Technical Product Manager Bill Baer disclosed some system requirements for SharePoint server 2016 which will be released in 2016. One more important thing is there will be no SharePoint 2016 Foundation, there will be only SharePoint 2016 Server.

Overall few things are same like SharePoint 2016 requires 64 bit processor with 4 cores. And also RAM 12 to 16 GB.

Below are few System Requirements for SharePoint 2016:

Scenario	Deployment type	Processor	RAM	Hard disk
Database server running a single SQL instance	Development	64-bit, 4 cores	12-16 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:

Below are the prerequisites required to install 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 WCF Data Services 5.0

- 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:

SharePoint Server 2016 will be supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 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:

SharePoint Server 2016 requires SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2016.

Deployment Scenarios:

Below are the deployment Scenarios which are supported or not supported in SharePoint 2016:

Workgroup: Unsupported

Domain Controller: Developer Installation

Client OS: Unsupported

Dynamic Memory: Unsupported

Windows Web Server: Unsupported