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APPLIES TO: 2013
2016
2019
Subscription Edition
SharePoint in Microsoft 365
You can install and configure SharePoint Servers 2016 or 2019 on a single server if you're hosting only a few sites for a limited number of users or if you want to create a trial or development environment. This configuration is also useful if you want to configure a farm to meet your needs first, and then add servers to the farm at a later stage.
Note
In previous versions of SharePoint, a single server installation automatically installed SQL Server Express. In SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019, a single server installation contains only SharePoint. SQL Server can be installed on the same server or on a separate server; both scenarios are supported. For better performance we recommend installing SQL Server on a separate server.
After you have completed setup and the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, you will have installed binaries, configured security permissions, configured registry settings, configured the configuration database, configured the content database, and installed the SharePoint Central Administration web site. Next, you can choose to run the Farm Configuration Wizard to configure the farm, select the services that you want to use in the farm, and create the first site collection, or you can manually perform the farm configuration at your own pace.
Before you begin to install and configure SharePoint Servers 2016 or 2019 on a single server, do the following:
For SharePoint Server 2016, ensure that you've met all hardware and software requirements. You must have a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019. To host SharePoint databases, you must also have a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2014 SP1, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, or SQL Server 2022. For more information about these requirements, such as specific updates that you must install, see Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2016.
For SharePoint Server 2019, ensure that you've met all hardware and software requirements. You must have a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022. To host SharePoint databases, you must also have a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, or SQL Server 2022. For more information about these requirements, such as specific updates that you must install, see Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2019.
Ensure that you perform a clean installation of SharePoint Servers 2016 or 2019.
Ensure that you're prepared to set up the required accounts by using appropriate permissions. For detailed information, see Initial deployment administrative and service accounts in SharePoint Server.
Ensure the Max degree of parallelism is set to 1. For more information about max degree of parallelism, see, Configure the max degree of parallelism Server Configuration Option.
Note
As a security best practice, we recommend that you install SharePoint Servers 2016 or 2019 by using least-privilege administration.
Tip
If you decide to install prerequisites manually, you can still run the Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool to verify which prerequisites are required on each server.
To install and configure SharePoint Server 2016 or 2019 on a single server, follow these steps:
Important
To complete the following procedures, the account that you use must be a member of the Administrators group on the computer on which you are installing SharePoint Server. For information about user accounts, see Initial deployment administrative and service accounts in SharePoint Server.
Because the prerequisite installer downloads components from the Microsoft Download Center, it's highly recommended that you have Internet access on the computer on which you're running the installer. Use the following procedure to install software prerequisites for SharePoint Servers 2016 or 2019.
To run the Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool:
The following procedure installs binaries, configures security permissions, and edits registry settings for SharePoint Server. At the end of Setup, you can choose to start the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, which is described later in this section.
To run Setup:
Note
If you intend to use this computer as a search server, we recommend that you store the search index files on a separate storage volume or partition. Any other search data that needs to be stored is stored in the same location as the search index files. You can only set this location at installation time.
Note
If Setup fails, check log files in the Temp folder of the user account you used to run Setup. Ensure that you are logged in using the same user account and then type %temp%
in the location bar in Windows Explorer. If the path in Windows Explorer resolves to a location that ends in a "1" or "2", you have to navigate up one level to view the log files. The log file name is SharePoint Server Setup (<time stamp>)
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Use the following procedure to install and configure the configuration database and the content database, and to install the SharePoint Central Administration website.
To run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard:
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is the farm administrator user account. For information about the farm administrator user account, see Initial deployment administrative and service accounts in SharePoint Server.
If you have closed the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, you can access it by clicking Start, point to All Apps, click Microsoft SharePoint Products, and then click SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. If the User Account Control dialog appears, click Continue.
On the Welcome to SharePoint Products page, click Next.
In the dialog that notifies you that some services might have to be restarted during configuration, click Yes.
On the Connect to a server farm page, click Create a new server farm, and then click Next.
On the Specify Configuration Database Settings page, do the following:
In the Database server box, type the name of the computer that is running SQL Server.
In the Database name box, type a name for your configuration database or use the default database name. The default name is SharePoint_Config.
In the Username box, type the user name of the farm service account. Ensure that you type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.
Note
The farm service account is used to access your configuration database. It also acts as the application pool identity account for the SharePoint Central Administration application pool, and it is the account under which the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer service runs. The SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard adds this account to the SQL Server Login accounts, the SQL Server dbcreator server role, and the SQL Server securityadmin server role. The user account that you specify as the farm service account has to be a domain user account. However, it does not have to be a member of any specific security group on your SharePoint servers or your database servers. We recommend that you follow the principle of least-privilege and specify a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group on your SharePoint servers or your database servers.
In the Password box, type the user password.
Click Next.
On the Specify Farm Security Settings page, type a passphrase, and then click Next.
Although a passphrase resembles a password, it is longer to improve security. It's used to encrypt credentials of accounts that are registered in SharePoint Server. For example, the SharePoint Server server farm service account that you provide when you run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. Ensure that you remember the passphrase, because you must use it every time that you add a server to the farm. Ensure that the passphrase meets the following criteria:
On the Specify Server Role page, choose the appropriate role, click Next.
Note
For a single server farm, we recommend choosing the Single Server Farm role, although you can select a Custom role if you want to individually manage the services instances that run on the server. You can change the role of a server later if you change your mind or want to expand your farm by adding additional servers.
On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application page, do the following:
Click Next.
On the Completing the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard page, review your configuration settings to verify that they're correct, and then click Next.
Note
The Advanced Settings option is not available in SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019.
On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish. When the wizard closes, setup opens the web browser and connects to Central Administration.
If the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard fails, check the PSCDiagnostics log files, which are located on the drive on which SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019 are installed, in the %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\LOGS
folder.
If you're prompted for your user name and password, you might have to add the SharePoint Central Administration web site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. You might also want to disable the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security settings. If you see a proxy server error message, you might have to configure proxy server settings so that local addresses bypass the proxy server. Instructions for configuring proxy server settings are provided in the following section. For more information about how to configure browser and proxy settings, see Configure browser settings.
After you run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, you should confirm that SharePoint Server works correctly by configuring additional settings in your web browser.
If you're using Internet Explorer, confirm that you have configured the browser settings correctly by logging on to the server, see Plan browser support in SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019.
To confirm that you have configured browser settings correctly, log on to the server by using an account that has local administrative credentials. Next, connect to the SharePoint Central Administration web site. If you're prompted for your user name and password when you connect, perform the following procedures:
If you receive a proxy server error message, perform the following procedure:
To add the SharePoint Central Administration website to the list of trusted sites:
To disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security settings:
To configure proxy server settings to bypass the proxy server for local addresses:
You have now completed setup and the initial configuration of SharePoint Server and have created the SharePoint Central Administration web site. You can now configure your farm and sites, and you can select services by using the Farm Configuration Wizard.
To run the Farm Configuration Wizard:
Note
For security reasons, we recommend that you use a different account from the farm administrator account to configure services in the farm. If you decide to use an existing managed account, that is, an account of which SharePoint Server is aware, then ensure you click that option before you continue.
Note
To view a template or a description of a template, click any template in the Select a template list.
After you install and configure SharePoint Server, your browser window opens to the Central Administration web site of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or customizing the site, we recommend that you first perform the following administrative tasks.
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