Determine hardware and software requirements (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

This post describes the hardware and software requirements for installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

About hardware and software requirements

An installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 can range from a single computer (stand-alone installation) to many computers (server farm). The requirements for your installation will depend on the availability and scale requirements for your solution. This post describes the minimum and recommended hardware requirements based on whether you are deploying a stand-alone installation or a server farm. This article also lists the software prerequisites for installing Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The hardware and software requirements described in this article apply to both x32-bit–based and x64-bit–based systems.

Note: Itanium-based systems are not supported.

Hardware requirements:

You can configure SharePoint server by two methods.

1. Standalone installation, in which you can use one server.
   
2. Server farm installation, in which you need to use minimum 2 servers and maximum 3 servers (Application Tire and Database Tire).
   

For both installation methods see the following table for min and max hardware requirement.

Component	Minimum	Recommended
Processor	2.5 GHz	Dual processors that are each faster than 2.5 GHz
RAM	2 GB	4 GB
Disk	NTFS file system–formatted partition with a minimum of 3 GB of free space	NTFS file system–formatted partition with 3 GB of free space plus adequate free space for your data storage requirements
Drive	DVD drive	DVD drive or the source copied to a local or network-accessible drive
Display	1024 × 768	1024 × 768 or higher resolution monitor
Network	 56 Kbps connection between client computers and server  For connections between computers in your server farm, 100 megabits per second (Mbps) connection	 56 Kbps or faster connection between client computers and server  For connections between computers in your server farm, 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) connection

Software Requirements:

Because Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the requirements that apply to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 also apply to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

I recommend that you install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a computer that has a new installation of Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later and all critical updates.

Operating system

Office SharePoint Server 2007 runs on Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later. We recommend that you apply all critical updates. You can use the following Windows Server 2003 editions:

• Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
  
• Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
  
• Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
  
• Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
  

Office SharePoint Server 2007 administration functions require Internet Explorer 6.0 with the most recent service packs or Internet Explorer 7.0.

Windows components

After you have installed the operating system and applied all critical updates, you must configure the computer to be a Web server by enabling IIS 6.0, including:

• Common files
  
• WWW
  
• SMTP
  

You must configure the server to use IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode. This is the default setting in new installations. However, if you have upgraded from IIS 5.0 on Windows Server 2000, Run WWW in IIS 5.0 isolation mode is enabled, and you must change this setting to use IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.

To enable e-mail notifications, you need to configure incoming and outgoing e-mail settings. To configure sending e-mail alerts and notifications, you can use your mail server or you must specify an SMTP e-mail server. To configure your installation so that your SharePoint sites can accept and archive incoming e-mail, you must install the IIS SMTP service.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

After you have configured the server as a Web server, you must install the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and then ensure that ASP.NET 2.0 is enabled.

To enable ASP.NET v2.0.50727, open the Web service extension in the IIS snap-in on the MMC. If ASP.NET 2.0 is installed on the computer before IIS is enabled, you must enable ASP.NET 2.0 by running the command aspnet_regiis -i.

Database server

The computer that hosts the database server role must have SQL Server 2000 with SP3a or later or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP1 or later. Some advanced features required SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SP1 or later.

For information about the hardware and software required to deploy a database server

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