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Hardware Software Requirement for SharePoint Online users
They’re isn’t specifically requirements listed for SharePoint Online but in the requirements for Office, in the ‘Office requirements and the Office 365 plans for business, education, and government’ section it has some hardware specs:
https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-system-requirements
The processor is recommended to be “1.6 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, 2-core. 2.0 GHz or greater recommended for Skype for Business” with at least 4GB RAM and at 4GB free disk space, with 1280 x 768 screen resolution. Check the link for more specifics.
Hope that helps.
They’re isn’t specifically requirements listed for SharePoint Online but in the requirements for Office, in the ‘Office requirements and the Office 365 plans for business, education, and government’ section it has some hardware specs:
https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-system-requirements
The processor is recommended to be “1.6 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, 2-core. 2.0 GHz or greater recommended for Skype for Business” with at least 4GB RAM and at 4GB free disk space, with 1280 x 768 screen resolution. Check the link for more specifics.
Hope that helps.
jcgonzalezmartin , I agree with you but what if open in office desktop, it may depend on local machine spec. I gained the feedback from the end users that it's slower in opening office desktop either using MS surface (windows 8) or desktop PC (Windows 7, 3GB RAM only).
That's why it's better to come out the minimal and optimum spec of machine for the end users to minimize the issues of using SPO and improving the better user experience.
Some use Office 2007 where they can't open office from SPO...
Thanks.
Rgrds,
VTEC
I agree considering performance is a very good idea and the end-user device plays it’s part in that, as well as things like network optimisation.
My personal observations are Windows 10 is much preferred, with 8GB RAM ideally, plenty of disk space free (10GB or more), SSD is the single best thing that will improve performace arguably but a HDD is fine and a modern Intel Core processor, anything from the last 5 years.
You also want to consider Microsoft’s lifecycle too and being prepared, with Office 365 that means older versions of Office will be unsupported next year, anything older than Office 2016 wont be supported with Office 365.
For more technical information with improving performance with SharePoint Online, this documentation is well worth reviewing:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/tune-sharepoint-online-performance
- What Microsoft Surface Model do you have in place? I'm still using my "old" Suraface Pro 2 with 8 GB RAM and it works like a charm... 3 GB can be not enough but not because of Office, just because of the OS (Specially Windows 7)
jcgonzalezmartin ,yeah..same spec with you. Probably the user's expectation is higher.
May expect that the page loading is 1 or 2 seconds.
You are right that Windows 7 performance is slower than Windows 10.
I observed that 2 users use the desktop machine in same model and same spec but in different OS (Win 7 and Win 10).
The user experience in Win 10 is better than Win 7.
Thanks.
