Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

re: Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

Steven Andrews — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:34:41 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I'm asking this question with self-education in mind, not an operational situation.

Why is SP2013 not supported on a VM that utilizes dynamic memory?

Many thanks,

Steven

re: Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

Yifat Becker — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:16:50 GMT

Thanks for the post, so good to give others a heads-up warning.

I'd like to add one thing though: there's quite a lot of add-ons and peripheral software that might get broken by the upgrade. We're using this SharePoint add-on called Harmon.ie (http://harmon.ie) and we decided to hang back with the upgrade until express assurance that it'll keep working as before, since the add-on is used on virtually all workstations.

re: Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

Jussi Roine — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:12:25 GMT

Thanks Stefan! We've had discussions with Microsoft and it seems the default goes here, as they point us back to the Technet article. I fully understand that, but it's problematic for customers already going the stretched farm-route, and now needing to change the architecture to conform to SP2013 recommendations. But as always, it depends and is often case by case.

re: Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

Stefan Goßner — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:41:23 GMT

Hi Jussi,

this is more or less a wording issue. We had lots of cases in the past on this.

Our Software has been tested on in Scenarios of a single data Center.

But if you System worked fine with SP 2010, then it will also work fine with SP 2013.

If you are affected by this specific Scenario I would recommend to open a Support case with Microsoft to get into a discussion about the implications.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Certain Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 installation scenarios are not supported

Jussi Roine — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:30 GMT

Hi Stefan,

This is good stuff. I'd also add on the list the fact that stretched farms are no longer supported in SP2013:

"All servers that belong to a server farm, including database servers, must physically reside in the same datacenter. Redundancy and failover between closely located data centers that are configured as a single farm ("stretched farm”) is not supported in SharePoint 2013."

Source: technet.microsoft.com/.../cc262485(v=office.15).aspx

This was supported in SP2010 so might come as a surprise if you're just doing migration using existing infrastructure :).