Upgrading SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016 on a single server

Brian Alderman

It is possible to install SharePoint Server 2016 on a single Windows Server machine which would be helpful if you are hosting just a few sites for a small number of users, want to create a development SharePoint Server farm, or in our case we want to create a SharePoint Server farm as a short term solution as we are on our way to SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. As you know SharePoint’s data resides in SQL Server, and in previous versions of SharePoint if you ran an install of SharePoint on a single server it would install SQL Server Express for you as part of the… Read More

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SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 Re-Release

Brian Alderman

Hopefully, you read my previous blog, I posted roughly two months ago, where I advised you not to immediately install any Service Pack (SP), Cumulative Update (CU), or Hotfix, unless it was absolutely necessary for your environment. I suggested, and have done so for several years, that you wait two months, to see if there are any issues introduced with the newly released software ‘Update’. My suggestion is because if there are issues introduced in the ‘update’ they would be discovered by those who chose to, or had to, deploy the recently released update. Unfortunately for them, they will be the ones who discover, report, troubleshoot, and test the fixes… Read More

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SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 Release

Brian Alderman

This week Microsoft announced the release of SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1). But, don’t react too quickly as I am sticking with my two month rule of not applying SP’s or Cumulative Updates (CU’s) until the kinks have been worked out in them. If you don’t have an immediate NEED to apply these SP’s, then as I will be doing, hold off to see if SP1 introduces any other issues. When you are ready to apply SP1, you can obtain information from several KB articles listed in this post. Similar to previous versions of SharePoint there are different flavors of the Service Pack, one for the SharePoint 2013 Foundation… Read More

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