Friday 22 August 2014

SharePoint 2013

Welcome to the world of SharePoint 2013. SharePoint 2013 Production version is released & Live implementations are going on. In this article I would like to re-iterate the features of SharePoint as a whole & advantages of going with it.

Sharepoint Features
Depending on the business perspective the features of SharePoint are many:

How to Install SharePoint 2013?

As SharePoint is a server side software, it requires the Windows Server operating system. You can start with a new installation or use a Virtual Machine. Once you have the Operating System ready, you can download and install SharePoint 2013 from the following link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx .

Hardware Requirements

Following are the core hardware requirements:
  1. CPU 64-bit
  2. RAM 8 GB
  3. HDD 80 GB

Software Requirements

Following are the software requirements:
  1. Windows Server 2012
  2. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 64-bit
  3. Internet Information Services 7.5
  4. Microsoft .NET 4.5