This topic describes how to install SharePoint 2016.
Prerequisites
- An Alibaba Cloud account is created. To create an Alibaba Cloud account, go to the Sign up to Alibaba Cloud page.
- An Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance that runs Windows Server 2012 is created.
Background information
To install SharePoint 2016 on an instance, the following environment requirements
must be met:
- Basic configurations of the instance:
- Windows Server 2012
- CPU: 4 vCPUs. Memory: 8 GB. You can design the architecture and purchase ECS instances based on your actual environments.
- Software environment:
- SQL server 2012 express
- SharePoint 2016
- AD
- DNS
- IIS
- Required component: .NET Framework 3.5 for installing SQL Server.
Note
- When you install .NET Framework 3.5, an error may occur in the Add Roles and Features step. For more information about how to fix this error, see What do I do if I am unable to install .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016 instances?.
- For more information about the required components of SharePoint, see Microsoft documentation. When you install SharePoint, you are prompted for installing dependency components. If the dependency components cannot be installed, you cannot install SharePoint.