Upgrading SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016 on a single server

Brian Alderman

Let’s say that you’re hosting a handful of SharePoint Server 2013 sites for a small number of users and you want to create a development SharePoint Server farm, or that you want to create a SharePoint Server 2016 farm as a short-term solution on the way to SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. In previous versions of SharePoint, if you ran an install of SharePoint on a single server, it installed SQL Server Express for you as part of the SharePoint installation. This isn’t the case with SharePoint Server 2016 or 2019, so you must install SQL Server (2014 SP1 or higher for SharePoint 2016) on the same… Read More

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SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 1 Released

Brian Alderman

Microsoft promised! Microsoft delivered! During the launch of SharePoint Server 2016, Microsoft said you no longer are going to have to wait for the next major release of SharePoint to obtain new features and functionality introduced in SharePoint Online. Guess what? They followed through by releasing SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 in early November 2016. A feature pack is similar to a CU, or Cumulative Update, in the sense it includes all previous updates for SharePoint Server 2016, which means you don’t have to install them before you install Feature Pack 1. But a Feature Pack also includes the new features and functionality that have been deployed and tested… Read More

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