System requirements for SharePoint 2013

APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365.

Before you install SharePoint 2013, you must make sure that you have installed all required hardware and software. To effectively plan your deployment, you must understand the level of support that is provided for the web browsers that you will be using in your environment and how support for IP versions 4 and 6 is implemented in SharePoint 2013. You must also understand the URL and path length restrictions in SharePoint 2013.

The following articles help you prepare for the installation of SharePoint 2013 by providing information about the prerequisites that you must have in order to run SharePoint 2013.

	Content	Description
	Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013	Describes the hardware and software requirements that you must meet to successfully install SharePoint 2013.
	Plan browser support in SharePoint 2013	Describes levels of support for web browsers to use with SharePoint 2013.
	IP support in SharePoint 2013	Describes SharePoint 2013 support for IP version 4 (IPv4) and IP version 6 (IPv6).
	Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2013	This article provides a starting point for planning the performance and capacity of your SharePoint 2013 farm, and includes performance and capacity testing results and guidelines for acceptable performance.
	Capacity management and sizing overview for SharePoint Server 2013	This article walks you through the concepts involved in capacity management and sizing SharePoint 2013 farms, and provides an overview of the planning process.