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SharePoint 2013 is officially NOT supported on Windows 2012 R2 until SP1

by Todd O. Klindt

on 9/20/2013 3:35 PM

Category: SharePoint 2013; Windows 8/8.1

Laying rest to days and days of rumor and heated speculation, Microsoft has come out with the official word on SharePoint 2013 support on Windows 2012 R2. According to KB 2891274 it is NOT supported. Support for Windows 2012 R2 will be added to Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013. The release date for SP1 was not announced.

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What Exactly breaks?

Todd, Apart from the installation, do you know of anything specific that doesn't work properly? We are in the process of upgrading to SharePoint 2013, and I have two W2012 R2 VMs to install SharePoint on. If we get over the installation, is there anything else that I can expect to fall ove, or should I just go back and get W2012 VMs?

Ciaran Fletcher

on 11/7/2013 5:07 AM

Re: What Exactly breaks?

Hi Ciaran,
Besides the prereq installer I don't know of anything that doesn't work. Understand that Microsoft is NOT saying, "SharePoint 2013 doesn't work on Windows Server 2012 R2." Instead, what they're saying is, "We haven't tested to see if SharePoint 2013 works on Windows Server 2012 R2 so we won't tell you it will." It may work perfectly fine, but they haven't tested it. And until they test it they won't support it.

tk

Todd O. Klindt

on 11/8/2013 8:33 AM

What Exactly breaks?

on 11/8/2013 10:17 AM

Oops

The perils of hitting refresh on a form submission page.

Thanks Todd. I haven't been able to find much that talks about what breaks or otherwise, apart from PrerequisiteInstaller. I think it is safer to step back to Windows Server 2012 and stay on a supported path.

on 11/8/2013 10:20 AM