In the last 24 hours, Microsoft unveiled Office and SharePoint 2013 and made both available for public preview. This post is just a consolidated source of useful links to get started.
Business
The promo video…
The ‘we really think you need a stylus with that’ tablet-oriented video: (requires Silverlight)
- SharePoint 2013 Overview on microsoft.com
- Office 365 Enterprise Preview (next version of Office 365 subscription services)
- Microsoft unveils the new Office – official press release from July 16th including SteveB video
- In-depth review on TechRadar
- Positive review on CNET
- Negative review on Ars Technica
Technical
Key links:
- Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Preview Evaluation Resources
- IT Pro Training Videos and Presentations (including links to download)
- Deployment Guide for SharePoint 2013 (download, various ebook formats)
- Install and Deploy SharePoint 2013 Preview (for IT Pros)
- SharePoint 2013 on MSDN (for Developers)
Architecture
The good old models are out:
Performance and Capacity Planning
Hardware and software requirements (summary below)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485%28v=office.15%29
Beware conflicting information. IT Pro training document suggests standalone is same as for SharePoint 2010. TechNet document says otherwise. We’ll go with the latter…
| SharePoint 2010 Minimum |
SharePoint Foundation Preview 2013 Minimum* |
SharePoint Server Preview 2013 Minimum* |
|
| Processor | 64-bit, four cores | 64-bit four cores | 64-bit four cores |
| RAM | 8GB for production servers 4GB for dev/eval servers |
8GB for production 4GB for dev/eval |
12GB per server in farm 24GB for standalone server |
| Hard Disk | 80GB Maintain 2xRAM free space |
80GB Maintain 2xRAM free space |
80GB Maintain 2xRAM free space |
| OS | Windows Server 2008 with SP1 | Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 | Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 |
| SQL | SQL Server 2005 with SP3 | SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP1 | SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP1 |
*Based on July 2012 Technical Preview.
Note: pushing to 8 core CPU and 16GB+ RAM for database servers and medium-sized farm deployments. And yes, that really does read 24GB if you want to install the full SharePoint Server 2013 with all services running on a standalone server
No mention about Windows Server 2012 but does mention that SQL Server 2012 RTM supported (but not release candidates or betas)
