Infrastructure Requirements

Since its previous version, SharePoint 2007, Microsoft has built the SharePoint platform to scale to meet the demands of users accessing SharePoint—be it a public-facing web site, a client Intranet, extranet, or however you use it. SharePoint 2010 has a set of minimum hardware requirements that you must provide to run it on a single server farm for modest user traffic.

Image Note Microsoft SharePoint 2010 requires, at the very least, a server with four cores running at 2.5 GHz, 8GB of RAM, and 80GB of disk space.

In high-demand environments, a single server will not suffice for a reliable SharePoint site. The Microsoft ...

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