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Minimum Software and Hardware requirements for SharePoint 2013 developer Environment

I am a sharepoint developer and was looking for software & hardware requirements for setting up just the developer environment for SharePoint 2013, its only for testing and developing sharepoint solutions on my PC/laptop.

I looked into the Microsoft list of hardware & software requirements but they focus on setting up the whole SP2013 environment and i presume that it is not the same for developing solutions on my PC/laptop.

Solution

  • The software and hardware requirements for SharePoint development are the same as the software and hardware requirements for Visual Studio 2012. Microsoft says these are:

    • 1.6 GHz or faster processor
    • 1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)
    • 10 GB (NTFS) of available hard disk space
    • 5400 RPM hard drive
    • DirectX 9-capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution
    • Windows 7 SP1 or better

    However, if you want decent performance, you should probably have, at a minimum:

    • 3.0 Ghz or faster quad core processor
    • 4 GB of RAM
    • 7200 RPM Hard Drive (preferably an SSD)

    This will satisfy VS requirements, as well as providing sufficient memory and horsepower to run SharePoint Server in a virtual machine.

    See Also

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/timquin/archive/2013/01/22/setting-up-visual-studio-2012-for-sharepoint-2013-development-offline.aspx