SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Required Software

Go back to Creating a Dev Environment

Our ideal set-up is this: Run Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V on a Windows 8 machine. At a high level, you need to have access to the following software:

  • Visual Studio 2012 Premium edition (or another version)
  • SQL Server 2012 including sp1
  • Office 2013
  • SharePoint Server 2013